1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Be sure that you put your feet at the right place, then stand firm.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the [person] of every calling, is diligence.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

This is a world of compensations, and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not from themselves, and, under a just God, cannot log return it.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty

I indicated no wish or purpose of my own;I simply expressed my expectation. Cannot the judge perceive the distinction between a purpose and an expectation? I have often expressed an expectation to die but I have never expressed a wish to die.