Motivational Quotes
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Act or accept.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There is no education like adversity.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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 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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The best way out is always through.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.