“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!”

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

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

“I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.”

“I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons -- in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”