Motivational Quotes
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
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.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Cross your bridges.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Act or accept.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I love a good fight.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.