Motivational Quotes - Page 9

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.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Don't count the days, make the days count.

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.