Motivational Quotes
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There is no education like adversity.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I love a good fight.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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 are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Cross your bridges.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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're going through hell, keep going.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Act or accept.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.