Motivational Quotes
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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 even to live is an act of courage.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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're going through hell, keep going.
I love a good fight.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There is no education like adversity.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way out is always through.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Act or accept.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.