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Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement. The observing should always be done with his full knowledge and hearty coöperation.

Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.

Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

Providence treats us like a generous father, and brings us up to labors, toils, and dangers; whereas the indulgence of a fond mother makes us weak and spiritless.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.

Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.

If you are beaten off, return again to the effort, and content yourself that your conduct is generally such as becomes a man.

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

each rational being can make every impediment in his way a proper matter for himself to act upon, and can use it for his guiding purpose, whatever it may be

the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm?

In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.

To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man—the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up

My dear Laelius and Scipio, we must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.

As members of the minority party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our government. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens.