Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.