A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of 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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I love a good fight.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Cross your bridges.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.