Motivational Quotes
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Act or accept.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The best way out is always through.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There is no education like adversity.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Cross your bridges.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I love a good fight.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.