Motivational Quotes
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Let deeds match words.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest. Instead of this, one should endeavor, as far as possible, to have everything the best of its kind; to read the best books, to make choice of the most genial companions, to hear the ablest speakers, to see the finest pictures, to attend the best plays, to hear the sweetest music, to grow the finest fruit, and to cultivate the most beautiful and fragrant flowers. To compass these higher pleasures requires not so much an enlarged expenditure of time, money, or troubl, as a purpose never to put up with an inferior gratification when an enjoyment of a higher strain is equally within the reach.
You deem you are in darkness, and yet I see a dawn.
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
The beginning is always today.
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.