Motivational Quotes
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
The best way out is always through.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
There is no education like adversity.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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 "trying things to see if they work"
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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 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.
Act or accept.