Society and the World

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Let us become the change we seek in this world.

Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.