Motivational Quotes
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.
The best way out is always through.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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 predict the future is to create it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Cross your bridges.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There is no education like adversity.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I love a good fight.
You are what you think about all day long.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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 three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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 make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.