Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I think you know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that were not successful whatsoever. I think people admire persistence. People notice that I'm still there.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.

Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. 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.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.