Abraham Lincoln Quotations:

Famous Words of Inspiration

Abraham Lincoln Quotations are inspirational, motivational, and liberating.

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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the ripening of the fruit, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Let the past as nothing be.

No client ever had enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong and oppression.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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

I would consent to any great evil, to avoid a greater one.

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

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I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

It is a momentous thing to be the instrument, under Providence, of the liberation of a race.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

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Will all be great men by and by.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

We have all heard the story of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death.

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

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no [way] interferes with any other man's rights.

Whatever You Are, Be A Good One

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