Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Act or accept.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You are what you think about all day long.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
I love a good fight.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way out is always through.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.