Chartacter Quotes

Never throughout history has a man

who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

When you play,

play hard;

when you work,

don't play at all.

Some day I shall be President.

The best minds are not in government.

If any were,

business would hire them away.

True teaching cannot be learned from textbooks

any more than a sunbeam can be learned from a physics book.

Buy the ticket,

take the ride.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I was born to make people laugh.

Be bold,

be fearless,

and say what needs to be said.

When humor goes,

there goes civilization.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Don’t let anyone dim your sparkle.

I’ve always believed in writing what I think,

even if it offends someone.

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I do not think much of a man

who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The point the power to hurt

of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental

and individual symbol for an universal one.

Success is walking

From failure to failure

With no loss of

Enthusiasm.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.