Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Character

Abraham Lincoln was a man of great character, and his quotes on the subject are still inspiring people today. Here are the top 99 Abraham Lincoln quotes about character:

“Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“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 up to what light I have.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
“Folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.”
“I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.”
“I do not know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
“I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
“I am not an accomplished lawyer. I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.”
“I have no prejudice against a man who is known to be a Republican. But if he is, why, I would rather not buy his oxen, or his hay, or his wood.”
“I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.”
“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.”
“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it.”
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”
“It is not what happens to you that counts, it is how you respond to what happens to you.”
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.”
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”
“Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
“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.”
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.”
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
“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.”
“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
“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.”
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
“There are two ways of exerting one’s

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