Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.