The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington