We will not have failure—only success and new learning.

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

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

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

Now what should happen when you make a mistake is this: You take your knocks, you learn your lessons and then you move on. That’s the healthiest way to deal with a problem.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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

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