Success consists in the overcoming of difficulties.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

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.

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

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

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

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of 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 secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

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.

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.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.