Abraham Lincoln Friend Quotes

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?

Sean Covey

#4. As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Julie Burchill

#5. A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. I'm not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I'm a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There's the peace of God. And there's peace with each other.

Rick Warren

#7. I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

Banksy

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

#12. - Choose a wish , Find a dream , Pick a wishing star , Let you hopes and freedoms sore high and free and far , Just believe in the impossible then work and try to do ; fo only those who dare to dream , Can make a dream come true.

Lillian Ross

#13. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. I looked down, unable to meet the intensity in Nat's eyes. Tonight, my crush for Nat had moved beyond a crush. The chemistry between us was undeniable, and the more we clashed, the more we wanted each other. - Summer, Perfect Summer

Kailin Gow

#16. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

#19. The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

#21. Time fell short of seconds and words fell short of breath as they all realized that Abraham Lincoln, friend, father, and leader was no more.

John C. Berry

#22. Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

Ian Lurie

#23. The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge ... its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. The unassuming inconspicuous halfway time between tomorrow and today, those slow frozen hours in-between, they're something of a comfort to the drunk rolling home.

Jonny Glynn

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

Abraham Lincoln

#26. Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Abraham Lincoln

#28. Love is the one uniting, relatable thing in everyone's life. It's what we all want and struggle with and fight for.

Drew Barrymore

#29. A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Rafael Sabatini

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln