Wickedness is weakness.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

you leave the cage, the transition into the jungle will definitely be challenging. You take a few steps forward and a few back. You stumble and fall and get back on your feet. Such is the way we learn to lean forward and keep stumbling toward success.

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.