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