Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Feelings

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

• I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Feelings, Independence

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

• I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Spring, Should Have

• A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Society, Public Opinion

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Thinking, Office

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.71, University Press of Kentucky

• Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Brother, Community

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Feelings, Civil War

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

• Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Feelings, Littles

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

• There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fall, Men, Feelings

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.454, Open Road Media

• You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Littles, Resentment

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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