I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Politicians
Abraham Lincoln
16th US president (1809-1865). A self-educated frontier lawyer who became the first Republican president, led the Union through civil war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated in 1865.
View this figure's profile
Abraham Lincoln's Other Quotes
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
Related Quotes
It is raining, but I don't believe that it is raining.
-- G. E. Moore
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-- William James
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
-- William James
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
-- Steve Jobs
I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.
-- Estée Lauder
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
-- Mary Kay Ash