There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Strength does not come from physical activity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
Strength does not come from physical activity. It comes from an indomitable will.
It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
"The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.