Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Love: 41 Timeless Quotes on Love, Life & Relationships

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams, dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I, a poor nobody then, fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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

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.

Why, madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It is my pleasure that my children are free, happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.

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

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

Yours forever.

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

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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.

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.

Perhaps a man’s character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, 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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser, in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature, opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I have always thought that all men should be free, but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.

You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then, the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Property is the fruit of labor, property is desirable, is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.