Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Do what you love, the money will follow.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.
Bloom where you are planted.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
Two wrongs can never make a right.
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
