Motivational Quotes
There is no education like adversity.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You are what you think about all day long.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a 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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way out is always through.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I love a good fight.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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 to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Act or accept.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Cross your bridges.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.