Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.

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.

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

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

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

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

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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.

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

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

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

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

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!

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.