Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Act or accept.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You are what you think about all day long.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The best way out is always through.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There is no education like adversity.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I love a good fight.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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 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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cross your bridges.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be 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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.