“What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.”

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.