Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Passion

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Friendship, Memories

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Temper, Ill

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

• Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Passion, Tired

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.162, Penguin

• I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

• It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
  naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Ambition, Passion

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.21, Fordham Univ Press

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