Motivational Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Cross your bridges.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Act or accept.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You are what you think about all day long.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There is no education like adversity.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.