Quote

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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
Succeed
Honor
Failing
Success
Always
Subordinates
Fail
Blame

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes I cannot see you.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Bad promises are better broken than kept.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.
Abraham Lincoln