Some people are like fences—they run around a lot without getting anywhere.
Flowers that bend toward the sun do so even on cloudy days.
The way to endure change is to find something that never changes.
To be helped, one must be willing to be helped.
Two of the greatest personality handicaps are regret and self-reproach.
Keep both feet on the ground and you won’t have far to fall.
A long life might be a good life, but a good life is certainly a long life, regardless of the number of years.
A shallow thinker never leaves a deep impression.
Mature persons take disappointments in stride.
The men who have moved the world have been men that the world could not move.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be as sure of anything as some people are of everything?
He who minds his own business has a very good mind and a very good business.
A handful of common sense is worth an armload of learning.
People who are the most difficult to please are often the least worth pleasing.
The old leaves come off the tree when the new ones come in.
Most people have five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. The successful have two more: horse and common.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Don’t be afraid of having too many irons in the fire if the fire is hot.
To stand right with Christ, one must learn to walk with Christ.
Better be a poor man and a rich Christian than a rich man and a poor Christian.
Don’t be yourself—be what you ought to be.
A fault recognized is half corrected.
Those who live on the mountaintop have a longer day than those who live in the valley.
A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.
To lift others, you must be on higher ground yourself.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a prayer-knot and hang on.
No power on earth or under earth can make a man do wrong without his consent.
When you are average, you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.
If you feel you have no faults—that makes another one.
There are no detours along the straight and narrow path.
Being first is not as important as being right.
A cheerful loser is always a winner.
If we live up to the best in ourselves, it will be easy to find the best in others.
A good archer is not known for his arrows but for his aim.
Better to beg one’s bread with Lazarus here than beg water with the rich man hereafter.
While looking for the obvious, it’s easy to overlook the significant.
The glory is not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.
If we are strong enough from within, there is nothing from without that can do us harm.
Advice is like mushrooms—the wrong kind can prove fatal.
God helped to start you in life; He helped to get you where you are; He won’t forsake you now.
Keep your feet on the ground even though friends flatter you.
You can tell you are on the right track—it’s usually uphill.
Be like a duck—keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle with all your might under the water.
People are like foghorns—they toot loudest when in fog.
Poverty is often a state of mind induced by a neighbor’s new car.
You have to know the ropes in your work, or you’ll get all tied up in knots.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
There is perfect freedom for people who do the work they want to do and live by that work.
Rough paths often lead to desirable destinations.
Many a man would reach a greater height if he had more depth.
Courage is like a kite—a contrary winds causes it to rise.
Too many Christians are pillows when the Lord wants them to be pillars.
Christ didn’t take the people out of the slums—He took the slums out of the people.
A real Christian is one who can speak well of those who speak ill of him.
A hypocrite is one who is not himself on Sunday.
When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.
Horse sense naturally comes from a stable mind.
Greatness does not come from favoritism but by fitness.
No cloud could cast a dark shadow if the sun were not behind it.
Jump to conclusions and you will suffer contusions.
God can stand with us only as we stand firm.
Christians may tremble on the Rock of Ages, but the Rock will never tremble under them.
The true Christian is one who is right-side-up in an upside-down world.
We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.
Prepare and prevent instead of repair and repent.
Whatever impedes a man and doesn’t stop him is progress.
If you don’t know where you’re going, you may miss it when you get there.
Carve your name on hearts, not upon marble.