Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You are what you think about all day long.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way out is always through.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Act or accept.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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 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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.