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