About Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War. (1809-1865)

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.Letter to Isham Reavis (1855)
• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (1848)
• The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.Letter to William H. Herndon (1848)
• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.Notes for a Law Lecture (c. 1850)
• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser, in fees, expenses, and waste of time.Notes for a Law Lecture (c. 1850)
• 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.Annual Message to Congress (1862)

More quotes on courage

• In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise.Carl Sagan
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
• In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.Galileo Galilei
• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.Leonardo da Vinci
• The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.Plato
• It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Socrates

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