Motivational Quotes
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Cross your bridges.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Act or accept.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no education like adversity.
The best way out is always through.