130 Abraham Lincoln Quotes That Will Inspire You A True Leader

Abraham Lincoln Quotes That Will Inspire You A True Leader

Abraham Lincoln Quotes That Will Inspire You A True Leader

Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer. Here are the Abraham Lincoln quotes and a short biography.

Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809 in poverty at Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky and died on 15 April 1865 at 56 age in Washington, D.C., United States. He was the 16th president of the United States.

He led the country through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political emergency in the American Civil War. He safeguarded the Union, canceled slavery, reinforced the federal government, and modernized the United States economy.  Check out the following best Abraham Lincoln quotes about success, freedom, leadership, education, and others.

Inspirational Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Success

1. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

2. There can be glory in failure and despair in success. - Abraham Lincoln

3. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln

4. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

5. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Abraham Lincoln

6. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

7. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln

8. Let no feeling of discouragement prey, upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed. - Abraham Lincoln

9. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln

10. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. - Abraham Lincoln
11. I will prepare and some day my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

12. Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln

13. You can lose everything in life, but not dreams. - Abraham Lincoln

14. If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again. - Abraham Lincoln

15. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

16. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. - Abraham Lincoln
 
17. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln

18. The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Abraham Lincoln

19. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln

20. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

Best Abraham Lincoln Quotes

21. I do the very best I know-how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln

22. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

23. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. - Abraham Lincoln

24. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. - Abraham Lincoln

25. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

26. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln

27. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

28. You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak. - Abraham Lincoln
 
29. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

30. No man is poor who has a Godly mother. - Abraham Lincoln

31. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln

32. Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

33. Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Freedom

34. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

35. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. - Abraham Lincoln
36. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

37. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. - Abraham Lincoln

38. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

39. Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. - Abraham Lincoln
 
40. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes

41. Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln

42. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln

43. People who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
 
44. Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

45. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

46. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. - Abraham Lincoln
 
47. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln

48. A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. - Abraham Lincoln

49. The ballot is stronger than the bullet. - Abraham Lincoln

50. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Love

51. Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart. - Abraham Lincoln
 
52. The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother. - Abraham Lincoln
 
53. Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent. - Abraham Lincoln

54. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

55. God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Leadership

56. 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. - Abraham Lincoln
 
57. Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe. - Abraham Lincoln

58. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln

59. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. - Abraham Lincoln

60. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln

61. The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people. - Abraham Lincoln

62. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. - Abraham Lincoln

63. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln

64. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

65. Elections 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 Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Life

66. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln

67. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
 
68. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

69. Life is hard but so very beautiful. - Abraham Lincoln

70. Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln

71. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. - Abraham Lincoln

72. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln
 
73. Every man's happiness is his own responsibility. - Abraham Lincoln

74. Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. - Abraham Lincoln

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75. If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right. - Abraham Lincoln

76. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded. - Abraham Lincoln

77. And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

78. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

79. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Education

80. The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. - Abraham Lincoln

81. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. - Abraham Lincoln

82. All I have learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln
 
83. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. - Abraham Lincoln

84. Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults. - Abraham Lincoln

85. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - Abraham Lincoln

86. Everything I ever learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln

87. I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. - Abraham Lincoln
 
88. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln
 
89. Investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Abraham Lincoln

90. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Friend

91. My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. - Abraham Lincoln
 
92. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln
 
93. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. - Abraham Lincoln

94. The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. - Abraham Lincoln

95. I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them. - Abraham Lincoln

96. If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. - Abraham Lincoln

97. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln

Short Abraham Lincoln Quotes

98. Force is all-conquering, but it's victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln

99. Writing is the great invention of the world. - Abraham Lincoln
 
100. A house divided cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln

101. Avoid popularity if you would have peace. - Abraham Lincoln

102. I am nothing, truth is everything. - Abraham Lincoln

103. Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. - Abraham Lincoln

104. Achievement has no color. - Abraham Lincoln

105. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. - Abraham Lincoln

106. We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

107. Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

108. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. - Abraham Lincoln
 
109. The most altruistic man is the most selfish. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Quotes Funny

110. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln
 
111. No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln

112. My father taught me to work, but not to love it. - Abraham Lincoln

113. There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. - Abraham Lincoln

114. The problem with internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy. - Abraham Lincoln

115. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln

116. Everyone desires to live long, but no one would be old. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Wisdom Quotes

117. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

118. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. - Abraham Lincoln

119. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln

120. 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. - Abraham Lincoln
 
121. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln

122. Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. - Abraham Lincoln

123. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln
 
124. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

125. Laughter can be used to soothe the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. - Abraham Lincoln

126. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

127. 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. - Abraham Lincoln

128. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. - Abraham Lincoln

129. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. - Abraham Lincoln

130. No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. - Abraham Lincoln

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