Motivational Quotes
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
You are what you think about all day long.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
I love a good fight.
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
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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 first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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 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.
The best way out is always through.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
There is no education like adversity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
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.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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.
Cross your bridges.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.