Motivational Quotes
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I love a good fight.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Cross your bridges.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
You are what you think about all day long.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
There is no education like adversity.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Act or accept.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The best way out is always through.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.