Motivational Quotes
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no education like adversity.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The best way out is always through.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You must be the change you want to see in 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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You are what you think about all day long.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I love a good fight.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Act or accept.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you 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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.