Motivational Quotes
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Act or accept.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The best way out is always through.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
I love a good fight.