Motivational Quotes
Cross your bridges.
I love a good fight.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way out is always through.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.