Motivational Quotes
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is no education like adversity.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Cross your bridges.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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 cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best way out is always through.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I love a good fight.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.