Motivational Quotes
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
I love a good fight.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You are what you think about all day long.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no education like adversity.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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 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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cross your bridges.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.