Quote

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
Ever
Contrary
Wells
Regret
Well
Soon
Feel
Lose
Falter
Feels
Loses
Adhere
Giving
Purpose
Resolution
Life
Power
Perseverance
Give
Keeping

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
Abraham Lincoln
Image
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
Abraham Lincoln