In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The best way out is always through.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I love a good fight.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to 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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Act or accept.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.