“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.”

“If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!”

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.”

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on”

“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”