Motivational Quotes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
There is no education like adversity.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
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 don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Cross your bridges.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Act or accept.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way out is always through.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
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.