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#1

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#2

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#3

“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.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious

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#4

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique

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#5

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#6

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: belief

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#7

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust

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#8

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: mothers

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#9

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: appearances, character, simile, substance

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#10

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: advice, future, life, self-determination

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#11

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: definitions, tact, wit

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#12

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: opportunity, preparation

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#13

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: planning, preparation

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#14

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, lying

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#15

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#16

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#17

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: procrastination

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#18

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: animal-rights

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#19

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: entitlement, inherited-wealth

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#20

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#21

“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: achievement, inspirational, racism

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#22

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#23

“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

tags: accomplish, desire, determination, purpose

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