Motivational Quotes
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
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.
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 are what you think about all day long.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I love a good fight.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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 you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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 judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
There is no education like adversity.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.