Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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 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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way out is always through.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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 can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Act or accept.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
I love a good fight.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.