Motivational Quotes
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There is no education like adversity.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
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.
Cross your bridges.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I love a good fight.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.