“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

With self discipline most anything is possible.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.