Motivational Quotes
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You are what you think about all day long.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I love a good fight.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cross your bridges.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.