Motivational Quotes
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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 love a good fight.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You are what you think about all day long.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Act or accept.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Cross your bridges.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.