Motivational Quotes
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
There is no education like adversity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You are what you think about all day long.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way out is always through.
Cross your bridges.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.