Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.