Motivational Quotes
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You must be the change you want to see in 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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
If you're going through hell, keep going.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You are what you think about all day long.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Cross your bridges.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Act or accept.
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 difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way out is always through.