“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”