Abraham Lincoln
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
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.
What ever you are be a good one.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Whatever you are be a good one.