 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. |
| The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. |
| The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. |
| For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. |
| I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. |
| Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. |
| Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. |
| 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. |
| It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. |
| Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. |
| Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. |
| The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. |
| A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. |
| 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. |
| In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. |
| There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. |
| To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. |
