You must make your own opportunities.

- John Bartholomew Gough

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

- John Bartholomew Gough

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

- John Bartholomew Gough

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

- John Bartholomew Gough

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

- John Bartholomew Gough

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land wi…

- John Bartholomew Gough

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

- John Bartholomew Gough

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

- John Bartholomew Gough

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

- John Bartholomew Gough