Motivational Quotes
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You are what you think about all day long.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There is no education like adversity.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I love a good fight.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Cross your bridges.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Act or accept.