Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.