Abraham Lincoln quotes Born: 02/12/1809 Died: 04/14/1865 Country: usa

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [mind/more/thing]
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/speak]
• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln) [words/]
• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. (Abraham Lincoln)
• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Abraham Lincoln)
• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. (Abraham Lincoln)
• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. (Abraham Lincoln)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand. (Abraham Lincoln)
• 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. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/people/time/people]
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. (Abraham Lincoln) [destroy]
• Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle. (Abraham Lincoln)
• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Abraham Lincoln) [matter/grandfather]
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
• 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) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. (Abraham Lincoln) [look/bad/people/find]
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln) [help/men]
• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. (Abraham Lincoln) [confidence/respect]
• If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same. (Abraham Lincoln) [willpower]
• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause. (Abraham Lincoln) [willpower/willpower/find/]
• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. (Abraham Lincoln) [right]
• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference. (Abraham Lincoln) [care/start/result/care]
• You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/people/time/people]
• He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln) [words]
• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. (Abraham Lincoln) [people/lord]
• Whatever you are, be a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
• He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan. (Abraham Lincoln) [parents/mercy/orphan]
• I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. (Abraham Lincoln) [wisdom/day]
• Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. (Abraham Lincoln)
• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. (Abraham Lincoln)
• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. (Abraham Lincoln) [business/start/start/right]

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