Motivational Quotes
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Act or accept.
The best way out is always through.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.