"Losing teaches kids to grow in the face of defeat. It also teaches them that losing isn’t the same as dying or being worthless. It’s just the other side of winning."

Are you feeling low today? You don't know what to do with your life? Feeling confused? Move on here and you'll find the solution.

Monday: What matters most to you? If you want to motivate yourself, start with determining your dreams, goals and aspirations.

Tuesday: Mistakes! Don't hate them, learn from them. Embrace your past and dream about the future.

Wednesday: You think you are the best? Accept that you are an amateur; then try to become an expert.

Thursday: Always find fun in your work and the things you want to do. Problems can be either problems or interesting challenges – it's up to you!

Friday: Having feelings is a sign you are a human, but don't let them control your actions and life.

Saturday: Be curious and gain as much knowledge and information as possible. Being smart includes being knowledgeable.

Sunday: Find solutions to the problems, not excuses.

Chaos, distractions and lack of focus will not help you achieve your goals. Prioritise and save precious time; stop wasting time on “timewasters.” Motivate yourself and start achieving your goals.

Set exciting, long-term, and powerful objectives in order to use your full potential. Exact, detail-filled goals will excite your inner creativity and arouse your imagination. Anything less will not even motivate you to get out of bed every day.

"Take control of what you know. The more you know about what motivates you, the easier it is to motivate yourself."

Focus on your goals and success instead of on a possible failure. Minimize distractions, including television. The less you watch, the smarter you will be. Be aware of the nonstop negativity you allow into your brain. Don't let this enter your subconscious mind.

Be a visioneer. Everything started as a dream. Build your goal in detail in your mind’s eye and watch it take shape. Visualize yourself achieving it!

"What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live that picture as if it were already true."

Do not rush, be patient. Make steady advances by seeking to improve your life by about 5% every day.

"The key to personal transformation is in your willingness to do very tiny things – but to do them today. Transformation is not an all-or-nothing game; it’s a work in progress."

People might not believe in you, but you have to believe in in the sincerity and value of your personal goals. Otherwise, you will lose your motivation, therefore your dreams.

"In this information-rich, interactive...life today, you are either living your dream or living someone else’s. And unless you give your own dream the time and space it needs...you’ll simply help...others make their dreams come true."

Face your fears. Empower yourself by facing and conquering your greatest fear, regardless of what it is. You must recognize them, face up to them and overcome them.

If you want to achieve excellence, you must be ready to fail first. You can fall short of your goals simply because you think you couldn’t possibly attain them. Be willing to go through the phase of being an amateur first on your way to expertise.

Mistakes often prove to be the best teacher in life. Learn how to use your predicaments, failures and weaknesses as guidelines for doing a better job the next time.

Embrace your weaknesses and learn a great deal from them. Turn the traits, tendencies and characteristics you most dislike about yourself into your strongest assets.

Use your imagination. Play roles. Decide who you are; don't let your past or bad moments dictate your identity. Your thought processes influence who you are and what you will accomplish. Act motivated and you will be.

Let your brain play a game. People react to stressful times with extraordinary abilities. Nothing captures the power of your imagination more than work you truly enjoy.

"Don’t be afraid to leave the psychic home you’re in. Get excited about building a larger, newer, happier home in your mind and then go live there."

Make it simple by determining what tasks you can do that would accomplish your goals, or combine tasks to achieve multiple goals.. Know what's most important to you and concentrate on goals that relate to your priorities.

"Mens sana in corpore sano" or a a sound mind in a sound body! The health of your body is the foundation for the health of your mind. Body strength and agility matter as much as intellectual vigor and alertness.

Train yourself both physically and mentally. Incorporating exercises into your routine isn’t just good for your body; it's also beneficial for your brain. Exercise your mind by solving puzzles and mystery stories.

Don’t let your emotions get the better of you. Often, your emotions control what you say. Speaking or acting from an emotional orientation can disrupt and destroy communication. Don’t ignore your feelings, know when to use them.

Make fun of your situations. Be optimistic. View problems as puzzles you have to solve, rather than seeing them as insurmountable. Problems often bring out the best in people so welcome them.

"Optimists...are not surprised, overwhelmed or offended by trouble. They know that trouble comes and they know they can handle it."

A word that has been said may be unsaid--it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.

Words so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

Humanity is the sin of God.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.