Motivational Quotes
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You are what you think about all day long.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Cross your bridges.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I love a good fight.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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're going through hell, keep going.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.