Dont' make excuses, make good.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there's so little competition.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.