Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
The business of America is business.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
