Abraham Lincoln Motivational Quotes

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”
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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

• 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

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

• I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Integrity, Character

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• 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

• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Honesty, Important

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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”

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Niece, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Baptist Teacher for Sunday-school Workers : Vol. 36", (p. 483), August 1905.

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Work, Safety

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.315, Fordham Univ Press

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, God, Dream

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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