Motivational Quotes
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I love a good fight.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The best way out is always through.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Act or accept.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Cross your bridges.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'