Abraham Lincoln ( 10 of 134 )
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted read more
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and read more
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to read more
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the read more
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
rnAll my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in read more
rnAll my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.rnAbraham LincolnrnNature, Mind, ThoughtrnI destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.rnAbraham LincolnrnFriends, DestroyrnI'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.rnAbraham LincolnrnBack, Walk, SlowrnI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
