Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain.

All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.

If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.