abraham-lincoln

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

I observed that most global achievers were first time global failures. It means, when you fail at your first attempt, perhaps that is the beginning of global influence. Don't give up. Dress up and go to work!

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Man__ glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in __is goodness,_ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an __nstrument of God__ will.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union__ side, Lincoln__ unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God__ side.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

Across the sea fat kings watched and were gleeful, that something begun so well had now gone off the rails (as down South similar kings watched), and if it went off the rails, so went the whole kit, forever, and if someone ever thought to start it up again, well, it would be said (and said truly): The rabble cannot manage itself.Well, the rabble could. The rabble would.He would lead the rabble in managing.The thing would be won.

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven__ the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven__ the slightest idea what it is. _ Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.