Abraham Lincoln

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.
• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
• I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
• I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
• I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.
• I'll prepare and someday my chance will come.
• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
• 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.
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
• The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
• The best way to predict your future is to create it.
• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
• Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
• Whatever you are, be a good one.
• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.