1. “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in life of an individual and of nations alike.”
2. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
3. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
4. “It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
5. “Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
6. “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
7. “It is hard to fail, but it s worse never to have tried to succeed.”
8. “Nothing worth having comes easy.”
9. “The worst of all fears is the fear of living.”
10. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
11. “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
12. “A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
13. “Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
14. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
15. “No man is above the law and no man is is below it.”
16. “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
17. “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
18. “Courage is not having the strength to go,; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
19. “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
20. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
21. “A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
22. “Nothing worth having coming easy.”
23. “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
24. “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
25. “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentle man as courage.”
