The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The American people abhor a vacuum.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
