Motivational Quotes
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Cross your bridges.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I love a good fight.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
You are what you think about all day long.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can 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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Act or accept.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.