Motivational Quotes
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The best way out is always through.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.