Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Success: 80+ Inspiring Lessons for Achieving Your Goals

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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

And this, too, shall pass away.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then find the way.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

You can lose everything in life, but not dreams.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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

I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

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.

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

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

Achievement has no color.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

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

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

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

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.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

If you would win a man to your cause first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

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

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

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

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Every head should be cultivated.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.

My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch anything on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is wrong.

Force is all conquering, but its victories are short lived.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

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

Life is hard, but so very beautiful.

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

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.