Friendship Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

— Abraham Lincoln

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

— Abraham Lincoln

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

— Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

— Abraham Lincoln

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

— Abraham Lincoln

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way…

— Abraham Lincoln

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

— Abraham Lincoln

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

— Abraham Lincoln

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep…

— Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an…

— Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being…

— Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to…

— Abraham Lincoln

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a…

— Abraham Lincoln

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a…

— Abraham Lincoln

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I…

— Abraham Lincoln

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the…

— Abraham Lincoln

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing…

— Abraham Lincoln

I dont like that man. I must get to know him better.

— Abraham Lincoln

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends

— Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

— Abraham Lincoln

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

— Abraham Lincoln

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

— Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

— Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

— Abraham Lincoln

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

— Abraham Lincoln

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

— Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him…

— Abraham Lincoln

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous…

— Abraham Lincoln

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have.…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds…

— Abraham Lincoln