Powerful Quotes by Abraham Lincoln: Leadership, education, success quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Thomas Lincoln
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Profession: Lawyer, politician
Abraham Lincoln’s Born and place
Born: 12 February, 1809
Born place: Hodgenville, Kentucky U.S.A
Abraham Lincoln’s Family
Father: Thomas Lincoln
Mother: Nancy
Spouse: Mary Todd
Sister: Sarah Lincoln
Children: Robert, Edward, Willie and Tad
Abraham Lincoln’s Death and place
Date of Death: April 15, 1865
Place: Washington, D.C., U.S.A
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Leadership quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.
– Abraham Lincoln
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
– Abraham Lincoln
There was no TV or cable news or BlackBerrys. Leaders weren’t multitasking; they had time to reflect
– Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
– Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
– Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
– Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
– Abraham Lincoln
Freedom quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the last best hope of earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
– Abraham Lincoln
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
– Abraham Lincoln
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing.
– Abraham Lincoln
This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
– Abraham Lincoln
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
– Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln quotes on slavery
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
– Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can’t remember when I did not so think, and feel.
– Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
– Abraham Lincoln
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
– Abraham Lincoln
Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
– Abraham Lincoln
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
– Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln quotes on Education
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
– Abraham Lincoln
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
– Abraham Lincoln
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
– Abraham Lincoln
I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
– Abraham Lincoln
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.
– Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln quotes on success
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
– Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
– Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.
– Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
– Abraham Lincoln
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
– Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
– Abraham Lincoln
