“It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

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.

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!