Abraham Lincoln
97 quotations
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.