Motivational Quotes
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Act or accept.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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 lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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're going through hell, keep going.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Cross your bridges.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best way out is always through.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.