“Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

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.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.