Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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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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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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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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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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