Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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're going through hell, keep going.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
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 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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Act or accept.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way out is always through.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Cross your bridges.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
I love a good fight.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.