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While writing my analysis on Abraham Lincoln about how great he is as a leader, I was so inspired by his life story before he became the 16^th president of the United States.  His long years and rocky roads to be the U.S. president was an amazing journey.

His life is so inspirational especially to a youth like me who aspire to become a great leader someday. He was born poor, and his parents were almost illiterate, yet his curious mind and ambitious trait drives him to have an early appetite for reading which shaped his character and personality. It’s surprising that his town in his childhood days have little or no motivation in education and he only had little days in his year of education but he was fond to read every book he could borrow and find.

Most of the youth today gave easily and throw their lives in misery, but Abraham was different in his youth. Lincoln don’t have read much books in his early years but having no interest in farming, he spends his days reading books and absorbing the thoughts as much as he could.

I can really see the effort he makes to do something great and his thirst to do the right thing paves a way to make his visions into a reality. Even in his younger years, he is an ideal leader and a visionary one – he knows his weaknesses well and what are the things he lacks which is very important as a leader. After that, he spend another years to improve his communication skills and continue his education and later on became a lawyer.

What I have learned from Abraham’s life journey is that there is no shortcut to success, like him he reaches the top because of hard work, commitment, and passion to what he really wants to be. Of all the struggles and conflicts he had gone through, maybe it is fulfilling for him to reach his main goal ever since he dreamed of doing something great.

His life and journey to become a great leader will be a very good example for the youth today who aspires to be one of the nation’s leaders. For me, Abraham Lincoln is very exceptional and talented a leader of his time and up until today. I will be gladly recommend anyone to read more about his life and works from his early life to his presidential year and like me, I expect them or maybe you to be inspired and motivate to become a leader too. Also, you will learn more about other things aside from knowing the life and works of Abraham Lincoln which is very significant. And I would also like to recommend you to read my character analysis on Abraham Lincoln as a great leader by clicking this link -> https://risas.home.blog/2020/10/27/an-analysis-lincoln-as-a-leader/

He’s a visionary and transformational leader who makes the dream became reality. As a reader of the life story of Abraham Lincoln, I can say that he is truly an amazing man. Now I understand why his name echoed throughout the history and to the world.

Abraham Lincoln is repeatedly remembered as one of America’s greatest leader. He is known as the Great Emancipator and a man who is against all pressure save the union and ended slavery in the midst of civil war that claimed the lives of over 700,000 Americans.

The source of biography is from Britannica.com written by Richard N. Current and was updated on October 22, 2020. Here is the link of Abraham Lincoln’s biography: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Lincoln . The purpose of the article is to inform the audience about the life and works of Abraham Lincoln. Since his assassination in 1865, Abraham Lincoln has grown to be a legend and has been memorialized throughout the years and across the land naming many things from theaters, museum, streets and colleges, parks, statues and monuments, cities and towns in his name.

But is it that makes Lincoln such a great man?

Lincoln was born poor, he has only less than a year of education, and his father lost all of their property when he was just 9 years old. His first love died when he was 25, he failed in business, suffered from depression, his wife was mentally unstable, and he endured several electoral defeats, yet through it all he rose to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States.

Lincoln was a man of unquenchable ambition. He said that he wants to be great; he wants to be remembered doing something great. Determined to succeed, he has the willpower and strength of mind to face the impossible odds that will even make a stronger man fail. He always perseveres and bounce back from fall and get back up again, and again, and again.

As a president, Lincoln was definitely a transformational leader –he was such a remarkably honest man of integrity and was trusted by everyone who knew him. His reputation for fairness and honesty helped him to be trusted by everyone. He always sees things from the perspective of others and has a great empathy for taking others point of view, he was always working hard to connect with the people; this earns him the love and respect of the people he served.

He was a visionary who imagined America to be a shining beacon when it comes to democracy and morality that all men are created equal whether you are black, white, red, or brown. He imagined a world where Americans not just believe but practice the long standing doctrine that we should love our neighbors as ourselves including our enemies. And after winning the civil war he did not boast nor celebrate but called for healing and reconciliation, pardoning enemies he has face in the war.

Even though his life was cut short by a bullet we still have his word today offering us wisdom and his life that serves as an example in our modern world. That a man who preserve the nation and never give up in the darkest of times; he stands as a symbol of honesty, empathy, humility, perseverance, and courage –a continuous reminder that the government should they be the people, by the people, and for the people.