Motivational Quotes
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You are what you think about all day long.
Act or accept.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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 "trying things to see if they work"
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to 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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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 is no education like adversity.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.