Motivational Quotes
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cross your bridges.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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 let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You are what you think about all day long.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way out is always through.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Act or accept.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.