Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Cross your bridges.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I love a good fight.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Act or accept.
The best way out is always through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.