Motivational Quotes
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be 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.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Act or accept.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
The best way out is always through.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
I love a good fight.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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 what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.