Quotes

Abraham Lincoln

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"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."

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

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar"

"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."

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

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

"If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."

"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it."

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

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most."