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

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Doing Your Best Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the...

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four,...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four,...

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

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

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

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

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the...

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the...

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

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

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are...

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are...

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening...

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening...

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up,...

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up,...

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time...

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time...

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

These days flattery wins friends, truth begets hatred.

These days flattery wins friends, truth begets hatred.

The battery of flattery received and enjoyed as lottery by a man from the coterie...

The battery of flattery received and enjoyed as lottery by a man from the coterie...

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in...

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in...