Motivational Quotes
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Act or accept.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
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.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
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.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Cross your bridges.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.