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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
The best way out is always through.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
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 love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Act or accept.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There is no education like adversity.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.