I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
