Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cross your bridges.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Act or accept.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no education like adversity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
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.