Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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.
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
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.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
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.
