Danny P > Danny's Quotes

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

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

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

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
― Edward J. Stieglitz

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

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

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

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”
― William J.H. Boetcker

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

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
― Abraham Lincoln