Motivational Quotes
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Cross your bridges.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I love a good fight.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There is no education like adversity.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.