You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea without compass rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is which way he is going and where he is going to land.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.