Motivational Quotes
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You are what you think about all day long.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Act or accept.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cross your bridges.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I love a good fight.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you 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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.