Motivational Quotes
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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 not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cross your bridges.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
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.
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 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Act or accept.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
There is no education like adversity.
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
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I love a good fight.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.