Echoes

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Do not let anyone else run your business.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

We must see that there is civic honesty, civic cleanliness, civic good sense in our home administration of city, State, and nation. We must strive for honesty in office, for honesty toward the creditors of the nation and of the individual; for the widest freedom of individual initiative where possible, and for the wisest control of individual initiative where it is hostile to the welfare of the many. But because we set our own household in order we are not thereby excused from playing our part in the great affairs of the world. A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the State; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman. In the same way, while a nation's first duty is within its own borders, it is not thereby absolved from facing its duties in the world as a whole; and if it refuses to do so, it merely forfeits its right to struggle for a place among the peoples that shape the destiny of mankind.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Go forth in virtue!

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

My life is my message.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not do the thing have not the power.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.