Motivational Quotes
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You are what you think about all day long.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There is no education like adversity.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Act or accept.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it