If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Necessity is the mother of our invention.

To feel valued, to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well, is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good - day!

My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today then what do you need tomorrow for?

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

To be somebody you must last.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

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

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.