Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual. You have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.