You renounce your success when you blame others for your failures.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

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.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

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.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

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.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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.