If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There is no education like adversity.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I love a good fight.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Act or accept.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Cross your bridges.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.