Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There is no education like adversity.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Act or accept.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cross your bridges.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I love a good fight.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.