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

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.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Patriotism means to stand by the country.

My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?

They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.