Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You are what you think about all day long.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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're going through hell, keep going.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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 a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Cross your bridges.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I love a good fight.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Act or accept.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.