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.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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 you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Cross your bridges.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Act or accept.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
I love a good fight.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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 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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way out is always through.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.