Motivational Quotes
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Act or accept.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
There is no education like adversity.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I love a good fight.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Cross your bridges.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.