Quote #259 About power by Abraham Lincoln

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

by Abraham Lincoln



Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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


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


"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."


"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."


"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."


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


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