Motivational Quotes
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Act or accept.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You are what you think about all day long.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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 want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.