Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.