Motivational Quotes
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I love a good fight.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You are what you think about all day long.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Cross your bridges.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.