Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

“It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope

“I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.” 

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.” 

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” 

“Psychology is the science of mental life” 

“None of us are ever who we were yesterday.” 

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

"Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around."

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

There is no such thing as failure, only results.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving

Although she be but little, she is fierce