Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I love a good fight.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Act or accept.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way out is always through.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You are what you think about all day long.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
There is no education like adversity.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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're going through hell, keep going.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.