Motivational Quotes
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
There is no education like adversity.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Cross your bridges.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I love a good fight.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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
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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.