Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Leadership
Who was He?

Abraham Lincoln is the 16th President of the United States and deemed by many scholars as the greatest President of the United States. He led the Republicans to defeat the Confederates who were challenging for a democratic United States.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization, and abolished slavery within the Confederacy.

A Quick History

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in a small town in Kentucky. Lincoln’s childhood had been full of events, with his family having to be forced to be moved to Indiana due to them losing the rights to their land in Kentucky.

Lincoln only spent 18 months in formal school but much of his education was from reading himself. Lincoln was a really talented person, able to wrestle, and a skilled axe wielder. He could also very talented in storytelling and often entertained a lot of his friends in meetings.

Lincoln began his political career at the young age of 23, and 5 years later, he began his first protest against slavery. Also, he protested against the war in Mexico, saying that President Polk was doing it for his own glory.

This speaking against the President caused him to lose his footing the political scene, but he would spend the next several years speaking against slavery as a citizen.

Lincoln would be twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate before his election as the 16th President of the United States.

As he would become the President of the United States, many states who would disapprove of his appointment made it clear that they would leave the Union. These states became the Confederate States of America.

The Union and the Confederates would eventually cause the American Civil War. This war would last for 4 years, and end with the surrender of General Lee and the Confederate armies.

He would spend most of his time after the war to reconstruct the United States and rally the people once again together through his speeches and rhetorics.

Lincoln would later be assassinated by an actor named Booth while he was attending a play.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership Lessons

1. Don’t give up
Abraham Lincoln showed the power of persistence as he continued to run for positions in the U.S Senate even though he was already rejected twice. This persistence paid off when he became the 16th President of the United States.

Your strength as a leader and as a person shows in your persistence in pursuing a goal and a vision. Lincoln wanted to see slavery abolished in the US, and he kept at it until it happened. Similarly, whatever cause you’re pursuing; whatever goal you’re chasing, remember to just keep at it. You’ll reach it eventually if you don’t give up.

2.Having the desire to learn
Although Abraham Lincoln never went through a lot of formal schooling, he never lost the desire to learn; and it showed in his immense interest in reading and during the war; a great curiosity about war strategy.

This desire made him a great public speaker and also one of the most quoted person in history. He had so much wisdom that people today still quote him, and scholars consider him the most excellent of all the US Presidents.

You must have a desire to learn as a leader. It is what keeps you growing and gives you wisdom and ability to handle bigger issues and solve bigger problems. If you want to become a leader of influence, then a continual attitude of learning is a must.
Best Quotes from
Abraham Lincoln Leadership

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand. . All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Everybody likes a compliment.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.