Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.