Motivational Quotes
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The best way out is always through.
Cross your bridges.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Act or accept.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
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.
You are what you think about all day long.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There is no education like adversity.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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’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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day