Motivational Quotes
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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 get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There is no education like adversity.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You are what you think about all day long.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I love a good fight.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day