Motivational Quotes
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cross your bridges.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Act or accept.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There is no education like adversity.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You are what you think about all day long.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You're good, but you're going to 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.