Best 100 Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quotes encapsulate the timeless wisdom and leadership of the 16th President of the United States. Known for his eloquence, Lincoln’s quotes are profound reflections on democracy, justice, and the human spirit. With a keen sense of moral responsibility, he addressed the complexities of civil rights and emphasized the enduring strength of the American people. Lincoln’s words serve as a beacon of inspiration, illustrating his legacy as a leader who faced challenges with grace and left an indelible mark on history.

1. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

   — Abraham Lincoln

2. I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody.

   — Abraham Lincoln

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

   — Abraham Lincoln

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

   — Abraham Lincoln

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

   — Abraham Lincoln

6. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

   — Abraham Lincoln

7. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

   — Abraham Lincoln

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

   — Abraham Lincoln

9. 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

10. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

    — Abraham Lincoln

11. Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.

    — Abraham Lincoln

12. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

    — Abraham Lincoln

13. 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 by the light that I have.

    — Abraham Lincoln

14. I am a patient man — always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance.

    — Abraham Lincoln

15. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him.

    — Abraham Lincoln

16. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

    — Abraham Lincoln

17. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

    — Abraham Lincoln

18. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

20. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

    — Abraham Lincoln

21. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

24. It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

    — Abraham Lincoln

25. Every man’s happiness is his responsibility.

    — Abraham Lincoln

26. If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

    — Abraham Lincoln

27. 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

28. I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

    — Abraham Lincoln

29. I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

    — Abraham Lincoln

30. I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

    — Abraham Lincoln

31. Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

    — Abraham Lincoln

32. I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

    — Abraham Lincoln

33. A friend has the same enemies as you have.

    — Abraham Lincoln

34. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

    — Abraham Lincoln

35. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

37. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

    — Abraham Lincoln

38. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

    — Abraham Lincoln

39. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

    — Abraham Lincoln

40. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

    — Abraham Lincoln

41. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

    — Abraham Lincoln

42. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

    — Abraham Lincoln

43. Whatever you are, be a good one.

    — Abraham Lincoln

44. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

    — Abraham Lincoln

45. I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody.

    — Abraham Lincoln

46. 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

47. 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 by the light that I have.

    — Abraham Lincoln

48. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

    — Abraham Lincoln

49. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

    — Abraham Lincoln

50. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

    — Abraham Lincoln

51. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

    — Abraham Lincoln

52. 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

53. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

    — Abraham Lincoln

54. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

    — Abraham Lincoln

55. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

    — Abraham Lincoln

56. The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

    — Abraham Lincoln

57. No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

59. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

    — Abraham Lincoln

60. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

    — Abraham Lincoln

61. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

    — Abraham Lincoln

62. I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

    — Abraham Lincoln

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

    — Abraham Lincoln

64. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

    — Abraham Lincoln

65. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

    — Abraham Lincoln

66. Whatever you are, be a good one.

    — Abraham Lincoln

67. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

    — Abraham Lincoln

68. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

    — Abraham Lincoln

69. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

    — Abraham Lincoln

70. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

    — Abraham Lincoln

71. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

    — Abraham Lincoln

72. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

    — Abraham Lincoln

73. You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

    — Abraham Lincoln

74. 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.

    — Abraham Lincoln

75. All I have learned, I learned from books.

    — Abraham Lincoln

76. Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

    — Abraham Lincoln

77. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

    — Abraham Lincoln

78. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

    — Abraham Lincoln

79. 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 by the light that I have.

    — Abraham Lincoln

80. I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

    — Abraham Lincoln

81. Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

    — Abraham Lincoln

82. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

    — Abraham Lincoln

83. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.

    — Abraham Lincoln

84. 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 by the light that I have.

    — Abraham Lincoln

85. I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

    — Abraham Lincoln

86. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

    — Abraham Lincoln

87. The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

    — Abraham Lincoln

88. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

    — Abraham Lincoln

89. 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

90. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

    — Abraham Lincoln

91. I am 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

92. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

    — Abraham Lincoln

93. I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

    — Abraham Lincoln

94. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

    — Abraham Lincoln

95. Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

    — Abraham Lincoln

96. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

    — Abraham Lincoln

97. 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 by the light that I have.

98. 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

99. I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

    — Abraham Lincoln

100. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best every day.

     — Abraham Lincoln

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