Abraham Lincoln on Creativity Quotes

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"I have a stepping-stone to the mind of a man, and that is his heart."

"The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"The leading object of the government is to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all."

"The objective of the government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves."

"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

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

"I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace."

"Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye, is the great invention of the world."

"I am not a fast walker, but I never walk backwards."

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"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."

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"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."

"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."

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

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