Stephen > Stephen's Quotes

“Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.”
― Richard Nixon

“Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.”
― Michael P. Naughton

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
― George Carlin

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
― Ludwig von Mises

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”
― Theodore Roosevelt