Motivational Quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The best way out is always through.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
There is no education like adversity.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You are what you think about all day long.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Cross your bridges.
Act or accept.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.