Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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...
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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 ar...
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leav...
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
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.