Chartacter Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

God,

our Creator,

has stored within our minds and personalities,

great potential strength and ability.

Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Let us raise a standard to

which the wise and honest can repair;

the rest is in the hands of God.

Success is not a good

teacher, failure makes

you humble.

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

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone,

you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

The government, whether state or central, is elected.

That means we have a responsibility to elect

the right kind of leaders.

People do not seem to realize that

their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions

but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

We can have no '50 50' allegiance in this country.

Either a man is an American and nothing else,

or he is not an American at all.

Success is dependent on effort.

Above anything else,

I hate to lose.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him.

I pity the creature who does not work,

at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.