motivation

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

"Study anyone who's great, and you'll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness, reown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master."

"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with you own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success."

"Your subconcious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your concious mind decrees. If you say,"I can't afford it," your subconcious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree,"I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"Doing more of what works doesn't work won't make it work any better."

"If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

"Fall down seven times, get up eight times."

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."

"You've got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness"

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win---if you don't you won't

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

I've always believed in magic. When I wasn't doing anything in this town, I'd go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch my arms out and say, "Everybody wants to work with me. I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers." I'd just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I'd drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, "Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet." It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things------you don't have enough goals.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want

"Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other."

"You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one."

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."