Motivational Quotes
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best way out is always through.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
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.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Cross your bridges.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Act or accept.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
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.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
There is no education like adversity.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day