Motivational Quotes
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 first things first, and second things not at all.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cross your bridges.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way out is always through.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I love a good fight.
Act or accept.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You are what you think about all day long.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.