“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We all have the ability to create a better world, this is no time to be silent

I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.