Motivational Quotes
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of 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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I love a good fight.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
There is no education like adversity.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way out is always through.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Act or accept.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cross your bridges.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.