“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“And in the end, it’s not the years of your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Doing the right thing often means going against popular opinion. “It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Save

To paraphrase Abe Lincoln’s quote: Reputation is what people think we are. Character is what we really are. “Perhaps a man’s character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Are you focusing on the thorns? Or the roses? “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln