Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Do you hate being a girl? What's it like? Is it like being a bug? I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to comprehend the magnitude of it.

My life needs a rewinderase button.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Nothing spoils fun like learning out it builds character.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

The business of the country is business.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

We do not need more material development; we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen/ we need more or the things that are unseen.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I have all theses great genes, But they're recessive. That's the problem here.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.