Motivational Quotes
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way out is always through.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
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.
Act or accept.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I love a good fight.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.