My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNDie when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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When 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.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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