Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Self-esteem]

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Self-improvement]

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Self-improvement]

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Sentiment]

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Silence]

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Slavery]

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Slavery]

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Slavery]

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Soldier]

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Tact and Tactfulness]

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Tears]

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Time and Time Management]

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Truth]

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Truth]

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Unity]

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Vice]

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Victory]

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Voting]

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
~ Abraham Lincoln - [Voting]