Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The best way out is always through.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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 ?'
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There is no education like adversity.