Motivational Quotes
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best way out is always through.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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"
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
I love a good fight.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.