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

“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not the the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”

“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.”

“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”