Motivational Quotes
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no education like adversity.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Act or accept.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
I love a good fight.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Cross your bridges.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way out is always through.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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 world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.