The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You are what you think about all day long.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cross your bridges.
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
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.