I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Topic: Accountability
- Location: California, San Diego
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
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More on Accountability
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
