Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Only you can control your future.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.