Motivational Quotes
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
I love a good fight.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There is no education like adversity.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Act or accept.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You are what you think about all day long.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Cross your bridges.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.