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