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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You are what you think about all day long.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I love a good fight.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"