Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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 obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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 be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way out is always through.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There is no education like adversity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Cross your bridges.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.