Motivational Quotes
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Act or accept.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
There is no education like adversity.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I love a good fight.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The best way out is always through.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Cross your bridges.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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 matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.