It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Allow motion to equal emotion.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
What people need and what they want may be very different.
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To stop sinning suddenly.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Habit is a form of exercise
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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?
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Play needs direction as well as work.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.
The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Live truth instead of professing it.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.