Motivational Quotes
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Act or accept.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The best way out is always through.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Cross your bridges.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I love a good fight.
There is no education like adversity.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.