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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You are what you think about all day long.
Act or accept.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I love a good fight.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.