“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
“Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.”
“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Whatever you do, do it well.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.”
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”
“I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.”
“The better angels of our nature.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.”
Arrivederci! (Goodbye in Italian)
