Motivational Quotes
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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 be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Cross your bridges.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The best way out is always through.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Act or accept.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There is no education like adversity.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
You are what you think about all day long.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to 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.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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 can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"