The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
- William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.- William Jennings Bryan

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.


- English proverb

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.- Epictetus

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
- Janet Erskine Stuart