Motivational Quotes
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cross your bridges.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I love a good fight.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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’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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Act or accept.