Abraham Lincoln

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. 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.

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Every job is a portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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.