Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure.
- Topic: Confidence, Failure, Victory
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Where words fail, music speaks.
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.
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
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.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
