If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. . . . Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again. " Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.