Motivational Quotes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You are what you think about all day long.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I love a good fight.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Act or accept.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.