Abraham Lincoln Advice Quotes

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

- Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing

- Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is government of, by and for the people

- Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

- Donald Davidson

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

- Carolyn Wells

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

- Mae West

When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

- Frank Tyger

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.

- Anonymous

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

- Bruno Bettelheim

I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorize success. I authorize it alright. Smile.

- Gertrude Stein

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

- Jos Bergamin

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl Rowan

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche