“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”

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.

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

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.