Motivational Quotes
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
The best way out is always through.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I love a good fight.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Act or accept.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Cross your bridges.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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 want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.