Motivational Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Act or accept.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
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.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
There is no education like adversity.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way out is always through.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I love a good fight.
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.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cross your bridges.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.