Abraham Lincoln Quotes to Inspire You at Work

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.