Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I love a good fight.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The best way out is always through.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Act or accept.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Cross your bridges.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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"
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.