Here we are providing Top 50 Motivational Quotes which is provided by Famous Personality American President “Abraham Lincoln” You can know these Top 50 Quotes of Abraham Lincoln.
| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
| 4 | If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. |
| 9 | For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. |
| 10 | A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. |
| 11 | Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. |
| 12 | Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. |
| 13 | The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all. |
| 16 | In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. |
| 17 | Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. |
| 18 | I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. |
| 19 | Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. |
| 20 | I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. |
| 21 | We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
| 22 | The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. |
| 23 | When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run. |
| 24 | This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. |
| 25 | Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. |
| 26 | Four score 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. |
| 27 | I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. |
| 28 | I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. |
| 29 | The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. |
| 30 | Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. |
| 31 | 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. |
| 32 | My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. |
| 33 | Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. |
| 34 | If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. |
| 35 | If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. |
| 36 | Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. |
| 37 | The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. |
| 38 | With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds. |
| 39 | The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. |
| 40 | Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. |
| 41 | At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. |
| 42 | These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel. |
| 43 | 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. |
| 44 | When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. |
| 45 | Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. |
| 46 | To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. |
| 47 | That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. |
| 48 | I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. |
| 49 | Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. |
| 50 | I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause. |
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