Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You are what you think about all day long.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way out is always through.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Act or accept.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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 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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There is no education like adversity.