Motivational Quotes
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
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.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
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.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You are what you think about all day long.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Act or accept.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
The best way out is always through.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Cross your bridges.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I love a good fight.