You are what you think about all day long.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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 yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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 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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Cross your bridges.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I love a good fight.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Act or accept.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There is no education like adversity.