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That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him...

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

It is true that while I hold myself without mock modesty the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform...

The Democrats of today hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the...

You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men....&lt;br /&gt;<br /> Do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted...

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all&lt;br /&gt;<br /> doubt.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if, in your own judgement, you cannot be an honest&lt;br /&gt;<br /> lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer....

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.