Motivational Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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"
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The best way out is always through.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Cross your bridges.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There is no education like adversity.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Act or accept.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I love a good fight.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.