Top 40 Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

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

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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

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

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

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.

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.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.

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

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

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

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

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.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came

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

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 what light I have.

Every person’s happiness is their own responsibility.

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