Motivational Quotes
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Act or accept.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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 not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I love a good fight.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.