Motivational Quotes
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The best way out is always through.
I love a good fight.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Act or accept.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.