Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Motivational

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Education, Philosophy

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Honesty, Important

Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Wise, Men

Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Encouragement, Business

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1330, Jazzybee Verlag

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Faith, Attitude

Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Work, Safety

Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.315, Fordham Univ Press

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Success, Wisdom

Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Success, Humor

Quoted in John Hay, Diary, 24 Dec. 1863.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Attitude, Character

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Judging, Political

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.32, University of Illinois Press

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy