Motivational Quotes

I think there is only one quality worse than

hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals

without ever going higher than a basement.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science,

and this great war for the victorious peace of justice,

must go on until the German cancer,

is cut clean out of the world body.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I wish to preach,

not the doctrine of ignoble ease,

but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It behooves every man to remember

that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance,

and that, in the end,

progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law,

but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country

and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor.

This is an era of organization.

Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Leave it as it is.

The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Old age is like everything else.

To make a success of it,

you've got to start young.

Big jobs usually go to the men

who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth

is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves

when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep

into our own natures.

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.

Character, in the long run,

is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I am only an average man but, by George,

I work harder at it than the average man.