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