Famous Quotes / James A. Garfield
14 Quotations by James A. Garfield
- 1. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- 2. Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yours ...
- 3. History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo ...
- 4. I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif ...
- 5. I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
- 6. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
- 7. Ideas control the world.
- 8. If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
- 9. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul ...
- 10. Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doc ...
- 11. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju ...
- 12. Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is ...
- 13. The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
- 14. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.