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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way out is always through.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Cross your bridges.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.