Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.