Chartacter Quotes

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone,

you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place,

then stand firm.

Building capacity dissolves differences.

It irons out inequalities.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one

has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

I spent my youth learning to play,

my age learning to live.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world

shall emerge into the light.

You can’t cheat the grind;

it knows how much you’ve invested.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The thing you fear most has no power.

Your fear of it is what has the power.

Facing the truth really will set you free.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate;

and while the debate goes on,

the canal does also.

Everything has its wonders,

even darkness and silence,

and I learn,

whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content.

Mistakes are always forgivable,

if one has the courage to admit them.

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

Be the best version of yourself in anything you do.

Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.