Motivational Quotes
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Cross your bridges.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You are what you think about all day long.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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 think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
I love a good fight.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best way out is always through.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
There is no education like adversity.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.