The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Cross your bridges.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You are what you think about all day long.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There is no education like adversity.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The best way out is always through.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.