Motivational Quotes
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Act or accept.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I love a good fight.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Cross your bridges.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to 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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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 out is always through.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.