Motivational Quotes
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You are what you think about all day long.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Act or accept.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way out is always through.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cross your bridges.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.