Motivational Quotes
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Act or accept.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
There is no education like adversity.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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 a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cross your bridges.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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 even to live is an act of courage.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You are what you think about all day long.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.