Motivational Quotes
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.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You are what you think about all day long.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way out is always through.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I love a good fight.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can 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.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Act or accept.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.