The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I love a good fight.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You are what you think about all day long.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Act or accept.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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 matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way out is always through.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
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.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.