Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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 what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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 can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There is no education like adversity.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Cross your bridges.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way out is always through.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.