Quotes by "Abraham Lincoln"

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

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 up to what light I have.

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

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

A house divided cannot stand.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

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.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.