Motivational Quotes
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Cross your bridges.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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 yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There is no education like adversity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Act or accept.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
You are what you think about all day long.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.