The way to accelerate your success is to double your failure rate.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

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.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

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.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.