Motivational Quotes
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The best way out is always through.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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 you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You are what you think about all day long.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
I love a good fight.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Act or accept.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Cross your bridges.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.