Motivational Quotes
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Cross your bridges.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Act or accept.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I love a good fight.
There is no education like adversity.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.