Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Act or accept.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There is no education like adversity.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Cross your bridges.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day