Motivational Quotes
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Cross your bridges.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Act or accept.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The best way out is always through.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.