Motivational Quotes
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I love a good fight.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You are what you think about all day long.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Cross your bridges.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.