Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way out is always through.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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 a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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 be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Cross your bridges.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.