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.
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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I love a good fight.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Cross your bridges.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
Act or accept.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.