Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You are what you think about all day long.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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 world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Act or accept.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I love a good fight.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.