Motivational Quotes
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.
I love a good fight.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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 only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
The best way out is always through.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You are what you think about all day long.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Cross your bridges.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"