Motivational Quotes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Act or accept.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Cross your bridges.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You are what you think about all day long.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.