James A. Garfield
11 quotes.
Quotes by James A. Garfield
- A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
- Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it is simply a brutality.
- If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- It is easier not to begin to go wrong than it is to turn back and do better after beginning.
- Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
- Occasion may be the bugle call that summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make soldiers nor win battles.
- The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
- The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
- Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.