Motivational Quotes
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Act or accept.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You are what you think about all day long.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way out is always through.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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 is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.