Motivational Quotes
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You are what you think about all day long.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way out is always through.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Act or accept.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.