All I ask is the ability to succeed or fail by the choices I make.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the 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.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

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 no failure except in no longer trying.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

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

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

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.

Where words fail, music speaks.

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

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

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to 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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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