Motivational Quotes
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I love a good fight.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You are what you think about all day long.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
There is no education like adversity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.