Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
There is no education like adversity.
Cross your bridges.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way out is always through.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I love a good fight.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.