Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of read more

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship
smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without
pain.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out read more

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.