Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Time

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Abraham Lincoln

Time, Losing, Lost

Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.81, Algonquin Books

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

Time, Men, Political

Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

Abraham Lincoln

Dog, Time, Loss

Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Time, Men

Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Time, War, Party

"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Dream, Hope, Time

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Change, Wisdom, Time

Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

Time, Eyelashes, Long

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Time, Thinking, Done

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.226, Jazzybee Verlag