"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.”
“You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.”
“A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.”
More on Public Opinion
“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”
“There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
“Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.”
More on Success
“I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.”