Motivational Quotes
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
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.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There is no education like adversity.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Act or accept.
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're going through hell, keep going.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, 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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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 you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You're good, but you're going to be great.