Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Humility

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We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, Humility, Heart

"The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Abraham Lincoln

Leadership, Humility, Giving

Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

Abraham Lincoln

Humility, Humble, Born

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

Abraham Lincoln

Humility, Relation, Wealthy

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.5, Library of America