Motivational Quotes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
I love a good fight.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There is no education like adversity.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Act or accept.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You are what you think about all day long.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.