The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

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.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

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.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

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.

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.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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.

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

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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