You're good, but you're going to be 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.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Act or accept.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I love a good fight.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There is no education like adversity.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You must be the change you want to see in 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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.