Motivational Quotes
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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 can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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 seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
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.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I love a good fight.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Cross your bridges.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You are what you think about all day long.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
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.
The best way out is always through.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Act or accept.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
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 only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.