You're good, but you're going to be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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 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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Act or accept.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.