Motivational Quotes
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way out is always through.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There is no education like adversity.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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 predict the future is to create it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You are what you think about all day long.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Act or accept.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Cross your bridges.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day