Motivational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I love a good fight.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There is no education like adversity.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
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 be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Cross your bridges.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.