Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

"Most folks are as happy as they make their minds up to be."

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow, the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be".

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues

If you look for the bad in (hu)mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.

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

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.  There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice.  The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.  ~Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February 1842