Motivational Quotes
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Cross your bridges.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Act or accept.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You are what you think about all day long.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way out is always through.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I love a good fight.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
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.