To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they 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're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You're good, but you're going to be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There is no education like adversity.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Act or accept.
Cross your bridges.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best way out is always through.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I love a good fight.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.