Abraham Lincoln Quotes (Part 1)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes:

1. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
2. Common looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
3. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
4. And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
5. My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
6. Let not him who is house less pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
7. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
8. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
9. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
10. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
11. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
12. I want it said of me by those who knew me best; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
13. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
14. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.