Motivational Quotes
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
There is no education like adversity.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
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.
Act or accept.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You are what you think about all day long.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must 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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.