Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Life: 75+ Timeless Quotes to Inspire You

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

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

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

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

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

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

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.

I say try; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

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

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

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today, it is for a vast future also.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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.

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

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

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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

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

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

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

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

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

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.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

All I have learned, I learned from books.

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

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

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

We cannot escape history.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so far nobly advanced.

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 have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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.

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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

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

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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

I have received nothing but kindness at your hands.

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

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

Common looking people are the best in the world, that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Honestly, if I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one?

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.

If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have? Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I have great respect for the semicolon, it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.