Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Act or accept.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
I love a good fight.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You are what you think about all day long.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There is no education like adversity.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Cross your bridges.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.