Motivational Quotes
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Act or accept.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Cross your bridges.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I love a good fight.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You are what you think about all day long.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.