Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cross your bridges.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Act or accept.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
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 seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You are what you think about all day long.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There is no education like adversity.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.