Motivational Quotes
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Cross your bridges.
Act or accept.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You are what you think about all day long.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, 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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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 to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way out is always through.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.