Friend Quotes

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.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things

you cannot learn any other way.

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.

Wealth is like seawater;

the more we drink,

the thirstier we become.

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.

The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Run with passion,

purpose,

and perseverance.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I will tell you this,

I’m a smart person.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Friendship with ones

self is all important,

because without it one

cannot be friends with

anyone else in the world.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant,

I just love great music.