Motivational Quotes
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I love a good fight.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The best way out is always through.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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 not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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 a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.