Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cross your bridges.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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 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.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I love a good fight.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The surest way not to fail is to determine 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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
The best way out is always through.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no education like adversity.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.