The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.
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.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
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.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
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 compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
