Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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.
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.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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.
Live truth instead of professing it.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Art is not a thing it is a way.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.