Motivational Quotes
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You are what you think about all day long.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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 not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way out is always through.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.