Motivational Quotes
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
There is no education like adversity.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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 let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The best way out is always through.
I love a good fight.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Act or accept.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You are what you think about all day long.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Cross your bridges.