“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

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.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

If you are judging your hard work based on past personal efforts, it might not be hard work at all!

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

A lot of people don’t want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Forgiveness is not the fruit of our own efforts but rather a gift, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.