10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;

but never hit softly.

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.

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.

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 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.

Get action.

Seize the moment.

Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Nine tenths of wisdom

is being wise in time.

When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

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.

Order without liberty and liberty without order

are equally destructive.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,

but great actions speak to all mankind.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.

The leader leads,

and the boss drives.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort,

by grim energy and resolute courage,

that we move on to better things.