Motivational Quotes
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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 best way out is always through.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
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.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
You are what you think about all day long.
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.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
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.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Cross your bridges.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Act or accept.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There is no education like adversity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.