Motivational Quotes
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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 love a good fight.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The best way out is always through.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.