Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

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

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.