Motivational Quotes
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
I love a good fight.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Act or accept.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day