Motivational Quotes
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Act or accept.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
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 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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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 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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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 a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I love a good fight.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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're going through hell, keep going.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.