Motivational Quotes
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You are what you think about all day long.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Cross your bridges.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I love a good fight.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.