Motivational Quotes
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There is no education like adversity.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you 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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I love a good fight.
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.
Act or accept.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You are what you think about all day long.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.