Favorite Quotes by Subject

Tell me… I’ll forget; Teach me… I’ll remember; Involve me… I’ll learn.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

If a person does his best, what else is there?

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. 

I cannot live without books.

There are only two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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Without justice, courage is weak.

Every calling is great, when greatly pursued.

If there is any principle of the constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought – not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought we hate.

The people made the constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

We must never forget that it is the constitution that we are expounding.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

The first duty of society is justice.

No person is above the law and no one is below it.

The people’s good is the highest law.

More law, less justice.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Justice in the life and conduct of the state is possible only as it first resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Only one thing is impossible for God. To find any sense in any copyright law.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. 

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

It isn't positions which lend distinction, but men who enhance positions

Wait for the wisest of counselors: Time.

Well done is better than well said.

H - At twenty years of age the will reigns

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

 It’s easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.

In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up that makes us rich.

If a person does his best, what else is there?

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. 

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena.

An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Seize the day, put no faith in tomorrow.

We are not capable of everything.

There is nothing impossible to those who will try. 

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

A republic, if you can keep it.

Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

The true Republic: Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. 

There is no negotiating freedom.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.

 I have always supported measures and principles and not people.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

 A government of laws, not of men.

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I never considered a difference in opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

All persons having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet

The buck stops here.

 It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. . 

Character is much easier kept than recovered. 

Character is much easier kept than recovered. 

 It’s easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.

To be good, and to do good.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. 

 Character is destiny.

A person's character is their fate.

 Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each person wishes, that he also believes to be true 

 There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude.

Be as you wish to be seen.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The high minded person does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

We can judge the heart of a person by their treatment of animals.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

The true measure of a person is how to treat someone who can do them absolutely no benefit..

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. 

Get action. Do things; be sane, don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt..

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Wise people speak to have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. 

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse and a good wife.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

A mother’s love endures through all.

Love is never lost.

Sweet is the memory of a distant friend. 

A mother’s love endures through all.

Love is never lost.

Sweet is the memory of a distant friend. 

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. 

To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness.

Only the artist, or the free scholar, carries their happiness within them. 

If Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

It seems to be a law of nature that those who will not risk cannot win.

Do your duty in all things. You could not do more; you should not wish to do less. 

Those men are the last hope of Texas; with them we must achieve our independence, or perish in the attempt.

One person with courage makes a majority. 

If you’re afraid – don’t do it, if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.