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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Act or accept.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I love a good fight.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cross your bridges.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
You are what you think about all day long.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.