Motivational Quotes
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cross your bridges.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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 you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Act or accept.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The best way out is always through.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
There is no education like adversity.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.