When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: politics thinking empathy talking political-advice



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People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln


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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: self-reliance entitlement



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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln


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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: reading books



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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: war leadership critics generals george-b-mcclellan united-states-congress



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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: photography beauty portraits



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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

Stichwörter: patriotism democracy faith hope determination angels unity destiny civil-war aberjhani u-s-presidents



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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: history atheism lincoln



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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Stichwörter: moral-courage leadership duty loyalty



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