Motivational Quotes
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There is no education like adversity.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.