Motivational Quotes
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You are what you think about all day long.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There is no education like adversity.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
I love a good fight.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
The best way out is always through.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Act or accept.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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're going through hell, keep going.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Cross your bridges.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.