Motivational Quotes
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 ?'
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I love a good fight.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, 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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Act or accept.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.