Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
There is no education like adversity.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way out is always through.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I love a good fight.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.