Motivational Quotes
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Act or accept.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
The best way out is always through.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I love a good fight.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
There is no education like adversity.