Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself—your strengths and your limitations - in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action,gives me satisfaction.

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says the oath.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

If you're made of the right material, a hard fall is bound to result in a high bounce.

It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.