Motivational Quotes
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Cross your bridges.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You are what you think about all day long.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
I love a good fight.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Act or accept.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.