Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.