Motivational Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There is no education like adversity.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The best way out is always through.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You are what you think about all day long.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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 lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
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.
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.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Cross your bridges.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I love a good fight.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.