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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There is no education like adversity.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Cross your bridges.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Act or accept.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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 can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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 not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I love a good fight.
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.