Motivational Quotes
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You are what you think about all day long.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
I love a good fight.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The surest way not to fail is to determine 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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Act or accept.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There is no education like adversity.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cross your bridges.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.