Motivational Quotes
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no education like adversity.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cross your bridges.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way out is always through.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Act or accept.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.