Motivational Quotes
There is no education like adversity.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I love a good fight.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Cross your bridges.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Act or accept.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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 is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.