Motivational Quotes
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
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.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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 can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Act or accept.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You are what you think about all day long.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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.
I love a good fight.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a 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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
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.