Motivational Quotes
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Act or accept.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Cross your bridges.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I love a good fight.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You are what you think about all day long.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way out is always through.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.