Abraham Lincoln’s Life Changing Quotes | Quotes About Life
most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar human action can be modified to some extent where human nature cannot be changed love is the chain to lock a child to its parent an aerial view of the lincoln memorial and national mall in washington dc those who look for the abandoned people will surely find it there are no bad pictures that's just how your face looks sometimes you can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry common looking people are the best in the world that is the reason the lord makes so many of them a farce of comedy is best played a tragedy is best read at home upon the subject of education not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it i can only see that i view it as the most important subject which we as a player hold this tongue than to find one who cannot close up off the face on abraham lincoln's statue in his memorial on the national mall if i were two-faced would i be wearing this one you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time [Music] i don't like that man i must get to know him better when you reach the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did on the contrary if you falter and give up you will lose the power of keeping any resolution and will regret it all your life and in the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years you cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today better to remain silent than be thought a fool than to speak out to remove all doubt leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today the feet of a hiker atop a rock covered by light green moss and twigs be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm we can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because storm bushes have roses every man's happiness is his own responsibility if i am killed i can die but once but to live in constant dread of it is to die over and over again a man kayaking toured the horizon at sunrise in chesapeake bay it often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power i would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody i have been driven many times upon my knees by overwhelming conviction that i had nowhere else to go my own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing 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 i have a congenital aversion to failure i happened temporarily to occupy this big white house i am living witness that anyone of your children may look to come here as my father's child has amber light from the sun setting over lincoln memorial in washington dc things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle i am not bound to win but i am bound to be true i am not bound to succeed but i am bound to live by the lights that i have i must stand with anybody that stands right and stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong the greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land a profoundly timeless abraham lincoln quote a top stacks of hundreds of newspapers we live in the midst of alarms anxiety clouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read human nature will not change in any future great national trial compared with the men of this we shall have as weak and as strong as silly and as wise as bad and as good the best way to predict your future is to create it a desert road near martha texas with a sign directing traffic in either direction the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time what is it to be will be and no prayers of ours can arrest a decree let every american every lover of liberty every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violations by others i claim not to have controlled events but confessed plainly that events have controlled me i know not how to aid you saving the assurance of one of mature age and much severe experience that you cannot feel if you resolutely determined that you will not i have not permitted myself gentlemen to conclude that i am the best man in the country but i am reminded in this connection of a story of an old dutch farmer who remarks to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams a man reciting the opening line of the gettysburg address on the mountaintop i have stepped out upon this platform that i may see you and that you may see me in the arrangement i have the best of the bargain the demon of the intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity as i would not be a slave so i would not be a master this expressed my idea of democracy and given freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve we shall notably save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth whenever i hear anyone arguing for slavery i feel a strong impulse to say it tried on him personally you think slavery is right and should be extended while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted that i suppose is the rob it certainly is the only substantial difference between us the one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of god's green earth fog rolling over a pine forest in the appalachian mountains slavery is found in the selfishness of man's nature opposite to it in his love of justice all i ask for the negro is that if you do not like him let him alone if god gave him but little that little let him enjoy i leave you hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bottom until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal if slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's constant i say this is the leading principle the sheet anchor of american republicanism it may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just god's assistance in ringing their bread from the strait of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged the prayers of both could not be answered as the infinite to exist only for a day no no man was made for immortality with malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right let us drive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds to care 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