Motivational Quotes
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a 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.
Act or accept.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Cross your bridges.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
There is no education like adversity.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way out is always through.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.