Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.