Motivational Quotes
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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 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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Act or accept.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I love a good fight.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way out is always through.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.