Motivational Quotes
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Act or accept.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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 you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
I love a good fight.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The best way out is always through.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.