Motivational Quotes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Cross your bridges.
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.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
I love a good fight.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Act or accept.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
The best way out is always through.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.