Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your consent.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expedience.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life in a great cause.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

There is a homely adage which runs "Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far."

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

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

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!"
Then get busy and find out how to do it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.