Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

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

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

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

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.

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.

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.