Motivational Quotes
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You are what you think about all day long.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I love a good fight.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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 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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to 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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Cross your bridges.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way out is always through.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you're going through hell, keep going.