Motivational Quotes
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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 think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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 keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You are what you think about all day long.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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 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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I love a good fight.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The best way out is always through.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
There is no education like adversity.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.