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