Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
motivational time men
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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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.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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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.