Motivational Quotes
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I love a good fight.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There is no education like adversity.
Act or accept.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.