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 leadership

• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.Sun Tzu
• Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.Sun Tzu
• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.Carl Jung
• Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.Bertrand Russell
• Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.Blaise Pascal

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