Motivational Quotes
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You are what you think about all day long.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
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.
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 make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I love a good fight.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cross your bridges.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way out is always through.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There is no education like adversity.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Act or accept.
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.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.