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.

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.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

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

Where words fail, music speaks.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

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

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.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

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

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

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.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

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.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

No, I don’t understand my husbands theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.