“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

I don’t have any ambition.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.