Motivational Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The best way out is always through.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I love a good fight.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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 even to live is an act of courage.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Act or accept.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Cross your bridges.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.