There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
It is hard to fail but it is worse to never have tried to succeed.
- Topic: Action, Failure, Success
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
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.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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 secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
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.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
