He that will not be saved needs no preacher.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

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

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

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

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.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.