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