Motivational Quotes
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else 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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Act or accept.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cross your bridges.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
I love a good fight.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.