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