If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at worth worth doing.
The things that will destroy American are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich quick theory of life.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart and that is softness of the head.
The man who loves other countries as much as he loves his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife.
Old age is like everything elseTo make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
A vote is like a rifle.Its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
When they call the roll in Congress the congressmen don’t know whether they should say “here or not guilty?
Believe you can and you’re hallway there.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Character in the long run is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored un in the past.
I am only an average man, but by George I work harder at it than the average man.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than the basement.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. the leader leads and the boss drives.
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.
It's impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all pries are those connected with the home.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk" we must act big.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. how to get along with people.
To go far speak softly and carry a big stick.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
When you play, play hard: when you work, don't play at all.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim, energy and resolute courage, that we move on to do better things.
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreak, confusion and troubles, then dies.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never his soft.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of I do! This is character.
If I must choose between peace and righteousness I choose righteousness.
Keep your eyes on the starts and your feet on the ground.
My hat's in the ring. the gigot is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
All the resources we need are in the mind.
The one things I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
