To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

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

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.