Motivational Quotes
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
There is no education like adversity.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Cross your bridges.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The best way out is always through.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Act or accept.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You must be the change you want to see in 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.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
I love a good fight.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.