Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

To lose Is to learn.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.