First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives

I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito

I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat

Today i will do what others won’t so tomorrow i can do what others can’t

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack

Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful

If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion

The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion

A year from now you may wish you had started today

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small

If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Even there in the midst of my belief that there was nothing worth salvaging, I could feel the truth of his words. Our circus act, begun at the Biltmore Hotel four years earlier, had mostly been a success. To admit as much, though, would be to undermine my argument. He would take the admission and twist it around in some way that would make him the victim and me the villain. I couldn’t say what I knew: that I was the villain, too