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

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

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.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

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.