Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You're good, but you're going to be great.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Act or accept.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
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 three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There is no education like adversity.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must 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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Cross your bridges.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.