Motivational Quotes
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.
I love a good fight.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way out is always through.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow 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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Cross your bridges.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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 know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
There is no education like adversity.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Act or accept.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.