Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Giving

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Sleep, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Рипол Классик

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

• The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Book

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Regret

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.288, Wildside Press LLC

• Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Inspiration, Giving

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

• My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Giving, My Best Friend

• I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Mean, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.193, Fordham Univ Press

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Good Life, Prayer

• I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Cutting, Opportunity

• With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Giving, Civil War

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

• Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Mean, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.410, Wildside Press LLC

• 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

  Bible, Christian, Religious

• For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Men, Yield

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.867, Modern Library

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

• The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, Adversity, Giving

• Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Giving, Society, Capable

• While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Past

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1863-1864”

• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

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