It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By.
The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.
This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker.
All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many.
If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing – court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.
Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.
You gain by giving – so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.
The typical accountant is a man, past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish; polite in contact but at the same time unresponsive, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster of Paris cast; a petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.
The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.