Motivational Quotes
Cross your bridges.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
There is no education like adversity.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I love a good fight.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.