Motivational Quotes
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I love a good fight.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create 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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
There is no education like adversity.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
Cross your bridges.
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.
Act or accept.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The best way out is always through.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.