Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Humble people ask for help.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

What is once well done is done forever.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

A word after a word after a word is power.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

I can handle pain.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.