Motivational Quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead 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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Cross your bridges.
There is no education like adversity.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Act or accept.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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 world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.