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 which has opened for us.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

My drive is other people’s success.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I only want my work to make people happy.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Without failure there is no achievement.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

Better is the enemy of good.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Peace begins with a smile.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.