"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
- William Ellery Channing
Inspiration
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
- William Ellery Channing
Leadership
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
- William Ellery Channing
Faith
"Love taking the form of aspiration."
- William Ellery Channing
Aspirations
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Ellery Channing
Strength
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed, Its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
- Og Mandino
Learning from Mistakes