If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.

Whatever you’re thinking about, you will attract.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do — now.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don’t give up.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.

Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.