You are certainly going to admire the collection of Abraham Lincoln famous quotes below. Before moving to these quotes, however, let's have a look at a brief overview of Lincoln's life.
About Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (born: February 12, 1809 – died: April 15, 1865) was a patriotic American leader, who became the 16th president of the United States in 1861, and headed the nation when it was surrounded by severe crises. During the period of his remarkable leadership, Lincoln managed to eradicate slavery and preserve the Union during the American Civil war.
Lincoln's endless efforts in bringing the nation out of crises have endowed him with an unparalleled legacy.
Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Abraham Lincoln Success Quotes & Other Famous Quotes
Following are Abraham Lincoln success quotes and other inspirational quotes to encourage you to stay firm and focused, and keep improving yourself to be successful. You will also find some thoughtful quotes that can really prove to be life-changing for you.
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| "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." (Abraham Lincoln) |
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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In the end, it is not the years in your life that count; it is the life in your years.
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The struggle for today is not altogether for today — it is for the vast future also.
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| "The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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| "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." (Abraham Lincoln) |
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.
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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.
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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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Sir, 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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| "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) |
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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| "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it. The tree is the real thing." (Abraham Lincoln) |
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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| "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." (Abraham Lincoln) |
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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| "Am I not destroying my enemy when I make friends of them." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes On Freedom & Slavery
Following are some famous Abraham Lincoln quotes on freedom and slavery which show his compassion for people, his anti-slavery ideology, and his desire to eradicate slavery from the United States as well as the whole earth.
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| "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it." (Abraham Lincoln) |
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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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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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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| "In giving freedom to slave, we assure freedom to the free - honourable alike in that we give and what we preserve." (Abraham Lincoln) |
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States, are and henceforward shall be free.
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Abraham Lincoln Democracy Quotes
The following Abraham Lincoln democracy quotes emphasize that democracy is all about considering the people to be the masters of the nation. The political party, which forms the government by being elected through a ballot, must consider itself to be the slave of the people.
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| "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution but to overthrow the man who perverts the constitution.
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| "Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to money power." (Abraham Lincoln) |
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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Abraham Lincoln Leadership Quotes
Following Abraham Lincoln leadership quotes are a source of great inspiration. Being a US president, Abraham Lincoln had a great consideration factor for his people. Through his amazing leadership skills, he led the nation out of the crises and significantly improved the living standards of people.
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| "Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag. I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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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.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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| "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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