Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You are what you think about all day long.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Act or accept.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Cross your bridges.
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.
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're going through hell, keep going.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I love a good fight.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"