Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Act or accept.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I love a good fight.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You are what you think about all day long.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give 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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.