Motivational Quotes
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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.
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.
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.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You are what you think about all day long.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
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.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
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.
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.
I love a good fight.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
Act or accept.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
There is no education like adversity.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The best way out is always through.
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're good, but you're going to be great.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.