Adversity Quote by Elton Trueblood

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him…

— Jessica Shirvington

“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”

— Anonymous

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“Lincoln himself once said, “The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves.”…

— John Wooden

“Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.”

— Elton Trueblood