Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Success

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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)
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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

• 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.

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• 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

• That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

• I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

• 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

• 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

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

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

• 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

• 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.

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Political, Politics

• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Humor

  Quoted in John Hay, Diary, 24 Dec. 1863.

• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Success, Humorous

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

• What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Want, Faces

• Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Honor, Succeed

• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Success, Hurt

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

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