Motivational Quotes
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a 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.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There is no education like adversity.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I love a good fight.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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’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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Cross your bridges.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.