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