La India Maria Quotes – Empowering Words from a Mexican Icon

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

La India Maria Quotes – Empowering Words from a Mexican Icon part 2

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

The only way to learn a new skill is to practice, practice, practice.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The best revenge is massive success.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

The future depends on what you do today.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Your work is discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.