If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way out is always through.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Cross your bridges.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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 cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Act or accept.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There is no education like adversity.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.