The price of greatness is responsibility.

• greatness
• responsibility

It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

• success
• performance
• results

Never, never, never, never give up.

• persistence

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

• death

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

• history

There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour.

• purpose
• opportunity

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

• courage
• virtue

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

• courage
• speech
• listening

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

• leadership

To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered that chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents.

• destiny

Men occasionally stumble over the truth. Most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.

• truth

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

• enthusiasm
• success
• failure

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

• work
• persistence
• effort

The short words are best, and the short, old words are the best of all.

• writing
• words

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

• taxes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

• capitalism
• socialism

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

• business
• capitalism
• socialism

I like a man who grins when he fights.

• fun

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

• leadership
• criticism
• management

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

• courage
• morals