Motivational Quotes
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Cross your bridges.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The best way out is always through.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.