“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”

“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”

“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.”

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“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.”

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”