Motivational Quotes
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There is no education like adversity.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cross your bridges.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I love a good fight.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way out is always through.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Act or accept.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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 are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.