Motivational Quotes
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Cross your bridges.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
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 is no education like adversity.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Act or accept.
You are what you think about all day long.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.