8 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Success

Abraham Lincoln quotes on success

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

9. The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

42. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

58. That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

103. I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

109. I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

116. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

135. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.