Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to 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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You are what you think about all day long.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best way out is always through.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Act or accept.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.