Motivational Quotes
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Cross your bridges.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Act or accept.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
The best way out is always through.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I love a good fight.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.