Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Cross your bridges.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You are what you think about all day long.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do 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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Act or accept.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.