Abraham Lincoln Life Quotations

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

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Be excellent and party on dudes.

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.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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.

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

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Everybody likes a compliment.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

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

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

In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years

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

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