Ability without honor is useless.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.