10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law,

but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

Character, in the long run,

is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I am only an average man but, by George,

I work harder at it than the average man.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

When you play,

play hard;

when you work,

don't play at all.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;

but never hit softly.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well

being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

Get action.

Seize the moment.

Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Nine tenths of wisdom

is being wise in time.

When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,

'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.