Failure is permanent only when a person quits.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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

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 are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Where words fail, music speaks.

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.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

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.

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.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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.

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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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!