You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

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

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

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

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.