Motivational Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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 are what you think about all day long.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The best way out is always through.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Act or accept.
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're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
There is no education like adversity.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond 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.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
You're good, but you're going to be great.