1. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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2. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

4. “Life is hard, but so very beautiful.”

— Abraham Lincoln

5. “Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”

— Abraham Lincoln

6. “It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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7. “Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.”

— Abraham Lincoln

8. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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9. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

— Abraham Lincoln

10. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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12. “Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

— Abraham Lincoln

13. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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16. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

18. “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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

24. “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

— Abraham Lincoln

25. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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28. “You cannot fail unless you quit.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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29. “Sir, 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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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30. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

— Abraham Lincoln

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31. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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32. “I walk slowly, but never backwards.”

— Abraham Lincoln

33. “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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35. “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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37. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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39. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

40. “Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.”

— Abraham Lincoln

41. “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 up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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42. “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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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43. “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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44. “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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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46. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

48. “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

— Abraham Lincoln

49. “I am not concerned that you have fallen – I am concerned that you arise.”

— Abraham Lincoln

50. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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