Motivational Quotes
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I love a good fight.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Act or accept.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You are what you think about all day long.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Cross your bridges.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.