Abraham Lincoln Quotes – II

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

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

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
~ Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
~ Abraham Lincoln

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
~ Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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