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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Cross your bridges.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There is no education like adversity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I love a good fight.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Act or accept.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.