Motivational Quotes
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Act or accept.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Cross your bridges.
There is no education like adversity.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.