Motivational Quotes
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You are what you think about all day long.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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’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 world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
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.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cross your bridges.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I love a good fight.
There is no education like adversity.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.