Motivational Quotes
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Act or accept.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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 can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
I love a good fight.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.