Most people judge men only by their success or their good fortune.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

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.

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

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

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Do not peer too far.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

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

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

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.