“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.”
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.”
“I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“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.”
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.”
“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
“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 experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.”
“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
“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.”
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
“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.”
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.”
“With malice toward none with charity for all.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
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