Motivational Quotes
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
I love a good fight.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Act or accept.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You are what you think about all day long.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.