Motivational Quotes
There is no education like adversity.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cross your bridges.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You are what you think about all day long.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.