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

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”