You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.