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.
From Theodore Roosevelt
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
The American people abhor a vacuum.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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