Emotions and Feelings

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Believe one who has tried it.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Never give in—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

When a man’s willing and eager, the gods join in.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.