Motivational Status in English

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I don't know who my grandfather was, but I'm much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.