Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Act or accept.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying 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.
Cross your bridges.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The best way out is always through.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.