Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.