Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotations

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

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

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

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

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

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

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

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

You cannot fail unless you quit.

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

Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

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

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

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

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.