Motivational Quotes
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Act or accept.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I love a good fight.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.