Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
Don't let the fact that you can't do all you want
to do keep you from doing what you can do.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they have make the best of everything.
The future is coming. Only you can decide where it's going.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over the sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
It is easier to make friends than to keep them.
Some people have very little to say but you have to listen a long time to find that out.
The flowers of all tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back.
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of people achieve the second.
Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past.
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The next time you begin to think you are all-powerful, try to ordering someone else's dog around.
Leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
Character is power.
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Some doctors say that cheerful people resist disease better than grumpy ones. The surly bird catches the germ.
It's not the bears and the bulls that make you lose money on the Wall Street. It's the bum steers.
Honesty in little things is no little thing.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
We cannot afford to wait until the storm has passed. We must learn to work in the rain.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
