Motivational Quotes
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You are what you think about all day long.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cross your bridges.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Act or accept.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I love a good fight.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.