Whatever you are, be a good one.America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.No man is poor who has a Godly mother.All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.I will prepare and some day my chance will come.No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.The best way to predict your future is to create it.The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.All I have learned, I learned from books.Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.Abraham Lincoln1809 - 1865