Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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 not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Act or accept.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I love a good fight.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cross your bridges.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.