Motivational Quotes
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
There is no education like adversity.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cross your bridges.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way out is always through.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I love a good fight.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Act or accept.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
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 ?'
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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 only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.