Motivational Quotes
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
There is no education like adversity.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way out is always through.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to 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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I love a good fight.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Cross your bridges.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You are what you think about all day long.