Motivational Quotes
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cross your bridges.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
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 be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There is no education like adversity.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way out is always through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Act or accept.