No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon HillAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel JohnsonAlthough the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope FrancisFailures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. LewisMost great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon HillHope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.
Joyce MeyerThe spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz KafkaAccept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. PattonThe thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘
Robert KiyosakiI always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron JamesInside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George CarlinA lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.
Jackie ChanLife is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.
Pope FrancisKnow thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.
Joyce MeyerEach generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.
Billy GrahamWe will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce MeyerThere is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson MandelaA lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘
EminemI always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. RockefellerRacing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Ayrton SennaIf it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.
Jocko WillinkNothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
John WayneBeware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard ShawI am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry KissingerMan needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl JungNothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van BeethovenMy mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel WashingtonMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Joyce MeyerYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘
Eleanor RooseveltThe fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiIt is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.
Mahatma GandhiIt is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.
David BowieShe never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
James BaldwinWe’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.
The WeekndOne of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
George W. BushIt’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn MonroeEvery day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Joel OsteenWhen I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.
Angelina JolieI don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.
Frank OceanThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriA lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
Barack ObamaI try to not focus on what people expect from me.
Lady GagaIf it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Jimmy BuffettA pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. PattonI think and that is all that I am.
Wayne DyerOver a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.
Robert KiyosakiLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus AureliusYou’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.
Nipsey HussleMr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.
Mr. TI’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.
George BestIf a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.
Abby Lee MillerHe who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich NietzscheI think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
Lou HoltzI cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne DyerIf you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey Newton