Motivational Quotes
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I love a good fight.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do 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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You are what you think about all day long.
Cross your bridges.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.