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| Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. | | Uncategorized | |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly | | Uncategorized | |
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| Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the | | Uncategorized | |
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| Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure ourselves what that life would be if these standards were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. | | Uncategorized | |
| For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. | | Uncategorized | |
| Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past | | Uncategorized | |
| Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. | | Action | |
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| He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out and camp with him, for that was the only way in which to see at their best the majesty and charm of the Sierras, ... Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character | | Uncategorized | |
| I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man | | Uncategorized | |
| I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! | | Uncategorized | |
