Motivational Quotes
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do 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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I love a good fight.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way out is always through.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Act or accept.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Cross your bridges.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.