“An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.”

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

You can complain about what you can’t change or you can focus on what you can change.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.