Motivational Quotes
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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 is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
The best way out is always through.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There is no education like adversity.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.