Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 9

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Democracies Have, People, Voting

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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• But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Conquer, Ends

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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  Motivational, Wise, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Secret

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• A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

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  Men, Noble, Spirit

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• It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Cheer, Prayer

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

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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  Struggle, History, Today

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.747, Modern Library

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

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

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• I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Government, Life Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.635, Library of America

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• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Men, Goal

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• If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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  Dread, Constant, Dies

  Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, Ch. 13

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• No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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  Country, Work, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

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  Men, Creating, Next

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• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

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  Prayer, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fine China, Broken, Reputation

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• 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.

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  Children, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

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  Adversity, Succeed, Failing

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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  Running, Acceptance, Elephants

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

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• 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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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Saving, Firsts, Virtue

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