Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I love a good fight.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You are what you think about all day long.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best way out is always through.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.