Motivational Quotes
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cross your bridges.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There is no education like adversity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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’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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Act or accept.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.