“Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.”

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

Bragging often precedes begging.

It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.