Motivational Quotes
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You are what you think about all day long.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There is no education like adversity.
I love a good fight.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Cross your bridges.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Act or accept.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.