Motivational Quotes
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Cross your bridges.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I love a good fight.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Act or accept.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way out is always through.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.