Motivational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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 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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I love a good fight.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way out is always through.
Cross your bridges.
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.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There is no education like adversity.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Act or accept.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.