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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way out is always through.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Act or accept.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cross your bridges.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I love a good fight.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There is no education like adversity.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.