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