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

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

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

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

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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.

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

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.