Quotes from William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.