Motivational Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Cross your bridges.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You are what you think about all day long.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way out is always through.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There is no education like adversity.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I love a good fight.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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 seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to 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.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.