A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour.
To escape criticism – do nothing say nothing be nothing.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Don’t lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.
An editor – a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.
Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Never get married in college it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.