Motivational Quotes
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Act or accept.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
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.
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.
I love a good fight.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way out is always through.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cross your bridges.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.