American Quotes

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

I would rather be respected than elected.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.