Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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 are what you think about all day long.
Act or accept.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.