Motivational Quotes
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cross your bridges.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The best way out is always through.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I love a good fight.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You are what you think about all day long.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.