"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
"Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs."
"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.""
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty."
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."
"Do what you can with what you have where you are."
"Far better it is to dare mighty 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 live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
"Every special interest is entitled to justice full, fair and complete....but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench or to representation in any public office."
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
"We have got but one life here. It pays, no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
"If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln."
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! - and get busy and find out how to do it."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."