Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNWhen I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNA tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNWe should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNA woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNo man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNElections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNIf there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN