Motivational Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
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.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Act or accept.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The best way out is always through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I love a good fight.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cross your bridges.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.