Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Cross your bridges.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Act or accept.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
You are what you think about all day long.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I love a good fight.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The best way out is always through.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.