Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no education like adversity.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I love a good fight.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way out is always through.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You are what you think about all day long.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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 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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.