The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way out is always through.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Act or accept.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You are what you think about all day long.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cross your bridges.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.