Motivational Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else 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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You are what you think about all day long.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The best way out is always through.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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 love a good fight.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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 ?'
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Cross your bridges.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.