Abraham Lincoln brings us enduring wisdom in a nutshell.
1/” It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
2/”Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
3/”Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
4 “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
5/”He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
6/” I am not concerned that you have fallen-I am concerned that you arise.”
7/”The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
8/”Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
9/”No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
10/”If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect, and esteem.”
OK. 10 wasn’t enough, so here are 5 more;
11/”The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
12/”Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
13/”Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years.”
14/”People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
15/”Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
