Fight with Failure 4

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a 

leg.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.


You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.