There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.