If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.

The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Without failure there is no achievement.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.