30+ Motivational Quotes from Abraham Lincoln: One-Liners That Will Inspire You to Achieve Greatness

 

1. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
2. "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
3. "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."
4. "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
5. "Whatever you are, be a good one."
6. "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
7. "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
8. "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
9. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
10. "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
11. "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
12. "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
13. "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."
14. "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."
15. "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."
16. "Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
17. "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."
18. "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."
19. "Whatever you are, be a good one."
20. "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
21. "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother."
22. "I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
23. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
24. "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."
25. "I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise."
26. "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side."
27. "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."
28. "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
29. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
30. "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
31. "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
32. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
33. "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
34. "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
35. "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."

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1. "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
2. "The best way to predict your future is to create it."
3. "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
4. "Whatever you are, be a good one."
5. "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."
6. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
7. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
8. "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
9. "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
10. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
11. "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
12. "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
13. "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."
14. "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
15. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
16. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
17. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
18. "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
19. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
20. "I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."
21. "I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
22. "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 the day."
23. "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."
24. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
25. "I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
26. "Every person's happiness is their own responsibility."
27. "If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
28. "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
29. "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
30. "I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise."
31. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
32. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
33. "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
34. "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."
35. "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
36. "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."