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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The best way out is always through.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cross your bridges.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There is no education like adversity.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I love a good fight.
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 not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You are what you think about all day long.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.