Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You are what you think about all day long.
Cross your bridges.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of 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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The best way out is always through.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I love a good fight.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.