Motivational Quotes
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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 get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There is no education like adversity.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Act or accept.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.