Quote

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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
Walk
Walks
Doesn
Long
Mater
Walker
Walkers
Backwards
Slow

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
Abraham Lincoln
Image
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Towering genius distains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
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
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
Abraham Lincoln