“Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.”

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.

Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

So darling, pick up those pieces and make something beautiful out of them because you can. You might have to bake them hot to rejoin them but trust me, it’s worth it.

In the mirror, stands your biggest rival.

Your speed in progress doesn’t matter. Forward is forward.⁠

Isn’t it strange, it’s not that our body forgets to breathe but subconsciously we hold our breath.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.

Fight for what makes you move on. Accept what you can not change. And part with what pulls you down.

Stop worrying that you haven’t reached a particular goal at a particular time.