I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

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.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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

Where words fail, music speaks.

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.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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.

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

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

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.