Motivational Quotes
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cross your bridges.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The best way out is always through.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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 make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You're good, but you're going to be great.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
There is no education like adversity.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Act or accept.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
I love a good fight.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.