Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Desire

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Desire, Liberty, Unions

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC

• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

• You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

• I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Famous Inspirational, Desire, World

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Freedom, Men

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

• I think slavery is wrong, morally, 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Desire, United States

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.723, Jazzybee Verlag

• Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Class, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

• What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Democracy, Desire

• And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blood, House, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Eyelashes, Long

• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Giving Up, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

• You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.130, Library of America

• I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Sobriety, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.10, Fordham Univ Press

• If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

  Abraham Lincoln

  Desire, Firsts, Slave

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

• I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Desire, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.316, Fordham Univ Press

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