Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There is no education like adversity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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 not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Act or accept.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cross your bridges.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.