Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

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.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

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.

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

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

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.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.