“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.”
“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
“I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
“It’s your life – but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
