Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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 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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Act or accept.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You are what you think about all day long.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Cross your bridges.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.