Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.