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List of quotes
| Men are only as great as they are kind. |
| Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. |
| Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. |
| Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. |
| Live truth instead of professing it. |
| 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. |
| He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. |
| Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. |
| 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. |
| Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. |
| Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake. |
| No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. |
| 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. |
| One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure. |
| Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. |
| Life in abundance comes only through great love. |
| In order to have friends, you must first be one. |
| Initiative is doing the right things without being told. |
| It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. |
| It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. |
| 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. |
| Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. |
| 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 to your goal. |
| If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. |
| Life is just one damned thing after another. |
| Positive anything is better than negative nothing. |
| If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. |
| Fear clogs; faith liberates. |
| 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. |
| It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. |
| There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. |
| Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. |
| The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. |
| The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. |
| 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. |
| The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. |
| The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. |
| The thing we fear we bring to pass. |
| The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. |
| There is no failure except in no longer trying. |
| The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward. |
| This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. |
| To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. |
| We are not punished for our sins, but by them. |
| We are punished by our sins, not for them. |
| We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. |
| We work to become, not to acquire. |
| Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. |
| Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| 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. |
| The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
| God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. |
| Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. |
| Responsibility is the price of freedom. |
| Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. |
| Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. |
| So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. |
| The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. |
| The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. |
| The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. |
| Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. |
| The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. |
| The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. |
| The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. |
| The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. |
| The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. |
| 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 love we give away is the only love we keep. |
| The man who has no problems is out of the game. |
| The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. |
| A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. |
| A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. |
| A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. |
| A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. |
| A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. |
| A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. |
| A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. |
| A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. |
| An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. |
| Art is not a thing; it is a way. |
| Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. |
| Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. |
| A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. |
| Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. |
| Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. |
| Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. |
| He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. |
| Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. |
| Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. |
| Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. |
| Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. |
| Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. |
