Motivational Quotes
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I love a good fight.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You are what you think about all day long.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Act or accept.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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 is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying 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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is no education like adversity.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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’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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.