Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Act or accept.
You are what you think about all day long.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
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.
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 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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give 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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There is no education like adversity.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
I love a good fight.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The best way out is always through.