Motivational Quotes
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 out is always through.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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 love a good fight.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Cross your bridges.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There is no education like adversity.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.