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