Motivational Quotes
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Act or accept.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Cross your bridges.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
You are what you think about all day long.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I love a good fight.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do 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.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.