Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

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

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

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.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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.

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.

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.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.