Motivational Quotes
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
The best way out is always through.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There is no education like adversity.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Act or accept.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'