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