Motivational Quotes
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You are what you think about all day long.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Cross your bridges.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, 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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way out is always through.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I love a good fight.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Act or accept.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
There is no education like adversity.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.