Motivational Quotes
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
There is no education like adversity.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You are what you think about all day long.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The best way out is always through.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I love a good fight.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Cross your bridges.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.