Motivational Quotes
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I love a good fight.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You are what you think about all day long.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you 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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cross your bridges.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The best way out is always through.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There is no education like adversity.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'