Motivational Quotes
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Act or accept.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You are what you think about all day long.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Cross your bridges.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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 ?'
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.