Motivational Quotes
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Cross your bridges.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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 love a good fight.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'