Blaming other people and circumstances leads to failure.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

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.

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.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.