Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Cross your bridges.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You are what you think about all day long.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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 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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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 the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
The best way out is always through.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Act or accept.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.