Motivational Quotes
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I love a good fight.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Cross your bridges.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There is no education like adversity.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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 judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Act or accept.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.