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.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
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.
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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.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.
Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.