Motivational Quotes
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Act or accept.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You are what you think about all day long.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Cross your bridges.
The best way out is always through.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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 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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I love a good fight.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You're good, but you're going to be great.