Motivational Quotes
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Act or accept.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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 gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You are what you think about all day long.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There is no education like adversity.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cross your bridges.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.