You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Cross your bridges.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I love a good fight.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You are what you think about all day long.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Act or accept.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'