Abraham Lincoln Great Quotes | Famous Thoughts of Abraham Lincoln, Motivational Sayings

Abraham Lincoln was the 16 President of United states. He not only successfully served as President but led the country through one of most difficult times in America.  Here is the compilation of some of the popular Abraham Lincoln quotes, hope you like it and share it with your friends.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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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.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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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.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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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.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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