I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
