"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I must stand with anybody that stand right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
-Abraham Lincoln
I believe that this quote is trying to say that you need to be true to yourself by standing with people who are true to you. If you stand with someone who is not true then you are only influencing yourself not to be true as well. You have to be true to yourself by being with people who show that they are true as well. Imagine you are at school, you are the new student. At your old school everything was good about you because you never did anything wrong. Then you meet the "cool kids" who ask you if you would like to hang out. You say no because you have to do your homework and you had plans with someone else to study. When you made this decision you were being true to yourself because you decided to do the right thing and stick to the plans you already had. If you said yes then you are lying to yourself because you know you have plans with someone else to study and now you're going to leave them waiting for you. If you said yes the person that you were supposed ti study with will probably no longer ask you to study with them because missing one study session shows that you are not trustworthy and they know that you didn't go for the wrong reasons. Just because you want to hang out with some people doesn't mean you have to put others behind you. That is doing the wrong thing because that is showing that you have horrible character. If you want to be true to yourself stick with people who have the same goal in mind. It is always better to stand alone than to stand with bad company.
-Abraham Lincoln
I believe that this quote is trying to say that you need to be true to yourself by standing with people who are true to you. If you stand with someone who is not true then you are only influencing yourself not to be true as well. You have to be true to yourself by being with people who show that they are true as well. Imagine you are at school, you are the new student. At your old school everything was good about you because you never did anything wrong. Then you meet the "cool kids" who ask you if you would like to hang out. You say no because you have to do your homework and you had plans with someone else to study. When you made this decision you were being true to yourself because you decided to do the right thing and stick to the plans you already had. If you said yes then you are lying to yourself because you know you have plans with someone else to study and now you're going to leave them waiting for you. If you said yes the person that you were supposed ti study with will probably no longer ask you to study with them because missing one study session shows that you are not trustworthy and they know that you didn't go for the wrong reasons. Just because you want to hang out with some people doesn't mean you have to put others behind you. That is doing the wrong thing because that is showing that you have horrible character. If you want to be true to yourself stick with people who have the same goal in mind. It is always better to stand alone than to stand with bad company.
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