Motivational Quotes
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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 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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am 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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I love a good fight.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
You are what you think about all day long.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.