Motivational Quotes
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is no education like adversity.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Cross your bridges.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
The best way out is always through.
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 first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Act or accept.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
I love a good fight.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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 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.
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.
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
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.