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 LincolnTags: politics thinking empathy talking political-advice
People who have no vices, have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnYou cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham LincolnTags: self-reliance entitlement
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 LincolnGet books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Abraham LincolnAnybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
Abraham LincolnTags: war leadership critics generals george-b-mcclellan united-states-congress
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
Abraham LincolnTags: photography beauty portraits
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
Tags: patriotism democracy faith hope determination angels unity destiny civil-war aberjhani u-s-presidents
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Abraham LincolnBe with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Abraham LincolnTags: moral-courage leadership duty loyalty
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