What are your favorite great and inspirational quotes?

[stayfit2008]

Ever since My 10yr. daughter has been competing as a gymnast,..I have become so inspired by her. Using my artistic talents I made scrap books for her and her teamates, (God,..I'm such a Martha Stewart sometimes,..wtf! haha)

Here are some of the quotes I found and added them into the books:

"Face each day with the expectation of achieving good rather than the dread of falling short"
-Shannon Miller, Olympic Gymnast


"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them".
- Henry David Thoreau


"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."
- William Arthur Ward


"Great conditioning is a result of great training,..without believing in yourself,..anything you inspire to do will fall short of being great" BELIEVE
- stayfit2008

[colosus88]

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Julius Caesar

[Guff]

See my signature

[stayfit2008]

See my signature

How true.

[IronCharles]

[Bamma]

Jimmy V's Speech:


Braveheart Speech (think part of this was inspired by Jimmy V)

[Stenn]

Well, as long as we're posting videos of speeches, this one's pretty good...

[rangerNY]

The movie (Rocky Balboa) is a train wreck, but the speech is pretty good:

[sha11]

See my signature

Bump.

Please see mine too.

And another is Albert's Einstein:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[Reality_Check]

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them".
- Henry David Thoreau

Hey I like that

[Reality_Check]

"Getting into a pissing match on the interent is like running in the special olympics, even if you win......"

unknown

[Tyrbolift]

Hey I like that

Here's a couple more, 2 of my favorites

-If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

-If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

[yakabebe]

Here's a couple more, 2 of my favorites

-If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

-If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A couple I live by.

Reality isn't as you want it it to be..it is as it is.

Imagine what you could achieve if....if....you believed it was impossible to fail.

Oh...and this one shaped my life all those years ago

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.

[Whatanejit]

Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved

[blu2xtreme]

Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved

Now that is one we all know but often forget to live by.
Thanks

[geer_matt]

"Put your money away and save it, that way if ya have to move out your womans house you be ok"
by--->My Dad, lol needless to say he has had to move out lots of times : )

[groink]

Whatever you do in the dark will come to light

Half of something is better than all of nothing

If you ask me a question, that means you are ready for the answer

Chicks dig the long ball

[hochspeyer]

Artillery is the god of war- J. Stalin

Every private has a marshall's baton in his backpack- N. Bounaparte

[IronCharles]

Artillery is the god of war- J. Stalin

Every private has a marshall's baton in his backpack- N. Bounaparte

My favorite Napoleon quote:

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

[BuckSpin]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC
"The Man In The Arena" Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910

[pastorgbc]

"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

[GuyJin]

"Luck is the residue of design." (Branch Rickey)

[Bo DeLone]

Here is a quote from Christian Thibaudeau

"Remember, your body has absolutely no physical need to eat junk. It's only our psychological side that's a slave to this."

I have gone on junk food tilt many times in my life and this quote got me thinking more about it.

[psychowolverine]

the highest achievers are those who consistently push themselves out of their comfort zones. Instead of withdrawing to their comfort zones when they don't get immediate results, they force themselves to stay at this awkward, uncomfortable and painful (but higher and better) level of performance until the pain finally subsides and they become comfortable at the new higher level. Or, as motivational speaker Tom Hopkins puts it, "pain of every change is forgotten when the benefits of that change are realized."

[Capt_Lou]

the movie (rocky balboa) is a train wreck, but the speech is pretty good:

this^^^^^^^

[2nd_chance]

A picture is worth a thousand words... so here's my favorite motivation for not making excuses.

[FresnoBeeDude]

You talk about your Psalms, you talk about your John 3:16. Well Austin 3:16 says I just whopped your ass.

But, seriously, can't remember where I read it (book, magazine). Arnold once said something about not going to the gym to chit chat. I wish I could find that quote

[Stenn]

Arnold once said something about not going to the gym to chit chat. I wish I could find that quote

I hope you find that quote. The conversations I've had in the gym often end with me saying, "Excuse me while I lift this thing a few more times."

[KeepItMoving]

"Nothing is over until we say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! So who's with me? Let's Gooooooo!!!"

I still get goosebumps when I think of that speech.














Kidding!!

My favorite quote is in my signature. And I really like all the ones posted here. The Roosevelt quote about the effort in the arena has been one of my favorites for many years.

[Whatanejit]

Here is a quote from Christian Thibaudeau

"Remember, your body has absolutely no physical need to eat junk. It's only our psychological side that's a slave to this."

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I like this one too!