Motivation and positive thinking Quotes

Be true to your own highest conviction

There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself

Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life