Motivational Quotes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Cross your bridges.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I love a good fight.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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 cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There is no education like adversity.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The best way out is always through.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Act or accept.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.