Motivational Quotes
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
There is no education like adversity.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You are what you think about all day long.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I love a good fight.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Act or accept.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.