Motivational Quotes
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way out is always through.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you 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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There is no education like adversity.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You are what you think about all day long.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Cross your bridges.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Act or accept.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
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.