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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Act or accept.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You are what you think about all day long.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I love a good fight.