Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I love a good fight.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way out is always through.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to 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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.