Motivational Quotes
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Act or accept.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Cross your bridges.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The best way out is always through.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.