If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

Failure inspires winners & defeats losers.

Unfortunately the main reason most people are not rich is because they are terrified of losing. Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

Mrs Allan says that whenever we think of anything that is a trial to use we should also think of something nice that we can set over against it. If you are slightly too plump, you've got the dearest dimples; and if I have a freckled nose the shape of it is all right.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly.