Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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.

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.