Cross your bridges.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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 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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Act or accept.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're 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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I love a good fight.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.