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