You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else. Failure can hurt. It is easy to shift pain onto others. Ignore the blame. If you don’t take accountability for your failures, you can’t take credit for your success. Claiming someone else is responsible for your life is futile. Either you are in charge of the choices you make or you are merely a puppet dancing on the pulled strings of others. Make the decision to accept and learn from failure that ultimately leads to success when you are accountable for your actions. Failure leads to success. Embrace every failure knowing it leads to triumph. Sure, the actions of others can affect your decisions, but you are responsible for your response. Yes, catastrophe of weather, war, death, all kinds of adversity imaginable, can manipulate you into thinking you are a victim. You are a victim if you think you are. You are a victory when thought so.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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

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.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

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

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

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

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

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