Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

The will of God prevails.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

This nation under God

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.