There is no education like adversity.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Act or accept.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You are what you think about all day long.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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 predict the future is to create it.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.