Motivational Quotes
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There is no education like adversity.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Act or accept.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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 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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I love a good fight.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Cross your bridges.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.