Motivational Quotes
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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 a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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 to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Cross your bridges.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.