1. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
2. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
3. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
4. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
5. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
6. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
7. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
8. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
9. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
10. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
11. Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
12. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
13. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
14. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
15. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
16. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
17. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
18. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
19. Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
20. It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
21. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
22. He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
23. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
24. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
25. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
26. Hell, there are no rules here— we're trying to accomplish something.
27. The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
28. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
29. Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
30. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
31. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched— they must be felt with the heart.
32. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
33. Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
34. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
35. There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
36. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
37. Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
38. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
39. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
40. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
41. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
42. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
43. If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
44. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
45. Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
46. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
47. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
48. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
50. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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