Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.
You have not failed until you quit trying.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Stand guard at the door of your mind.
Don’t get stuck where you are, keep growing. It’s a decision you have to make because it is easy to get stuck. Make a decision to develop better habits, to have better relationships and just to keep the enthusiasm for life.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.