“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
“Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
“Life is just one damned thing after another.”
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
“Art is not a thing; it is a way. ”
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ”
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
“Laughter is higher than all pain.”
“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”
“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. ”
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”
“Nothing is permanent but change.”
“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”
“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”
“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.”
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.”
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!”
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”
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