Motivational Quotes
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I love a good fight.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You are what you think about all day long.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
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 through hell, keep going.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Act or accept.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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 best way out is always through.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.