Alphabet Quotes

Duty,

honor,

country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate

what you ought to be,

what you can be,

what you will be.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Older people sit down and ask,

What is it?

but the boy asks,

What can I do with it?

For me,

there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Think like a wise man but

communicate in the language of the people.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

My philosophy is: not only do we have a right to be ourselves,

we have an obligation to be ourselves.

Look at the sky.

We are not alone.

The whole universe

is friendly to us and

conspires only to

give the best to those

who dream and work.

The more you know,

the more you can enjoy what’s happening.

We sleep in separate rooms,

we have dinner apart,

we take separate vacations

we're doing everything

we can to keep our marriage together.

The path from dreams to

success does exist.

May you have the vision

to find it, the courage

to get on to it, and the

perseverance to follow it.

Friendship at first sight

like love at first sight

is said to be

the only truth.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

To succeed in your mission,

you must have single

minded

devotion to your goal.

If you want to shine like a sun,

first burn like a sun.

Have a heart that never hardens,

and a temper that never tires,

and a touch that never hurts.

Rose is a rose is a rose.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I’m tough because the world is tough.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.