1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield – [Luck]
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield – [Trouble]
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield – [Men]
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield – [Ideas]
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield – [Work, Hard]
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield – [Age and Aging]
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
James A. Garfield – [Defeat]
Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield – [Poverty and The Poor]
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield – [Effort]