If you're going through hell, keep going.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I love a good fight.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
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 world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Act or accept.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cross your bridges.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.