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Abraham Lincoln

Political Figure

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is remembered for his leadership, wisdom, and unwavering commitment to unity and justice. His words often reflect integrity, perseverance, and a deep understanding of human nature. The following quotes capture Lincoln’s timeless insights on leadership, morality, and the enduring values that shaped a nation.

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Topic: Inspirational, Success
Abraham Lincoln
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
Abraham Lincoln
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Achievement has no color
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
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Fourscore 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.
From The Gettysburg Address
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Topic: Funny, Life
Abraham Lincoln
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Topic: Inspirational, Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Achievement has no color
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Fourscore 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.
From The Gettysburg Address
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Topic: Funny, Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Topic: Inspirational, Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Topic: Inspirational, Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Achievement has no color
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Fourscore 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.
From The Gettysburg Address
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Topic: Religion
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Topic: Education
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
Topic: Success
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Topic: Funny, Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Topic: Life
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Topic: Inspirational
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Topic: Funny
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Topic: Happiness
Abraham Lincoln
NOT YET RATED▼
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Topic: Hope
Abraham Lincoln
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