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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

Abraham Lincoln
Helping

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Abraham Lincoln
Sacrifice, Progressive, Ready

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Teacher, Children

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, Education, Philosophy

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln
Health, Discipline, Want

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

Abraham Lincoln
Fool, Opponents, Arguing

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln
Money, Selfish, Adversity

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Abraham Lincoln
Short Inspirational Life, Ifs

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Abraham Lincoln
Violence, Ends

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Freedom, 4th Of July
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln
People, Please

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.

Abraham Lincoln
Dog, Honesty, Humor

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
Leadership, Loyalty, Leader

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Abraham Lincoln
Kindness, Storm, Storms Of Life

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Abraham Lincoln
Truth, Lying, Believe

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Abraham Lincoln
Two, Dollars, Good Thoughts

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln
Principles, Links, Divine

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Abraham Lincoln
Hero, Long, Honor

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, Book, Believe

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Abraham Lincoln
Witty, Remember, Telling The Truth

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Abraham Lincoln
History
Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group