Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Live truth instead of professing it.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
There is no failure except the failure of trying.
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
As we grow better, we meet better people.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Success consists in the climb.
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.