Motivational Quotes
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way out is always through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cross your bridges.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Act or accept.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
There is no education like adversity.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I love a good fight.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to 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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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 can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.