Motivational Quotes
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
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.
I love a good fight.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The best way out is always through.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Cross your bridges.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of 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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Act or accept.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.