Motivational Quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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 first things first, and second things not at all.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The best way out is always through.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Cross your bridges.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Act or accept.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.