Motivational Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Act or accept.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no education like adversity.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake 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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Cross your bridges.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're 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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best way out is always through.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I love a good fight.