Motivational Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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 worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Act or accept.
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.
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.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
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.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There is no education like adversity.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I love a good fight.