Motivational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There is no education like adversity.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Act or accept.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I love a good fight.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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 matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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 can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.