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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The best way out is always through.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You must be the change you want to see in 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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Act or accept.
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 do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.