Abraham Lincoln Quotes (130+)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

„It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.