Motivational Quotes
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
There is no education like adversity.
I love a good fight.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
You are what you think about all day long.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Act or accept.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.