Motivational Quotes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Cross your bridges.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There is no education like adversity.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
I love a good fight.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Act or accept.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day