Motivational Quotes
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way out is always through.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Cross your bridges.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Act or accept.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You are what you think about all day long.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.