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| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. | | Action; Ambition; Courage; Criticism; Willpower | |
| It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things | | Effort | |
| It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. | | Uncategorized | |
| Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. | | Uncategorized | |
| Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. | | Character; God; Law and lawyers | |
| Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. | | Uncategorized | |
| My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff. | | Uncategorized | |
| Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering | | History | |
| Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. | | Wisdom | |
| No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. | | Uncategorized | |
| No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it | | Law and lawyers | |
| No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expedience | | Uncategorized | |
| No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause | | Uncategorized | |
| No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue | | Uncategorized | |
| No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse | | Civilization | |
| Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. | | Uncategorized | |
| Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. | | Uncategorized | |
| Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. | | Age | |
| One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other. | | Uncategorized | |
