Motivational Quotes
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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 the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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 out is always through.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There is no education like adversity.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.