Motivational Quotes
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way out is always through.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You are what you think about all day long.
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 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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Cross your bridges.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I love a good fight.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.