Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
I love a good fight.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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 seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Act or accept.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There is no education like adversity.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way out is always through.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.