The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds,/ For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye

A little bit of hatred can spoil a score of yearsAnd blur the eyes that ought to smile with many needless tears.A little bit of thoughtlessness and anger for a dayCan rob a home of...

It matters not what goal you seek – Its secret here reposes: You’ve got to dig from week to week – To get Results or Roses

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try...

Somebody scoffed, “Oh, you’ll never to that –/ At least no one ever has done it”;/ But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,/ And the first thing we knew, he’d...

It Couldn’t Be DoneSomebody said that it couldn’t be done,But he with a chuckle repliedThat “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be oneWho wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.So he buckled right in with the...

With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin/ Without any doubting or “quit it,”/ He started to sing, as he tackled the thing/ That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false...

There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is training of a nobler kind / And that’s the education of the heart. / Lessons that...

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf / I want to be able to like myself. / I don’t want to look at myself and know / That I’m bluster and buff and...

I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel...

Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, still our joys are swept away. And loved ones we would keep, with the dead are called...