I love motivational quotes, they really get me pumped during short moments like finishing a set or getting out of bed at 5am to go for a run. One of my favorites is in my signature: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

I'd love to hear everyones favorite Motivational or Inspirational quotes so I can build up a great collection ready for whenever I need a little bit of a push along.

Cheers guys :tu:

Marcus

Here are mine.

I don't remember who said it, but someone on the forum once made the statement:

"Losing weight is easy."

Now, any time I feel tempted, all I have to do is remember that. And oh how it rings true!

-CP

"Aqaba is over there, it's only a matter of going."

"Pick'em up and set'em down, Pyle! Quickly! Move it up!"

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."

I like this:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

"There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela

" Every Successful person 'Did'."
Only Doers Succeed.
Joyal Mehta
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- "Pain is just weakness leaving the body."

I really like that one.

Keep em comign guys, many of the quotes you guys posted I havent heard before. below are some ones I found of the net, after reading them it makes me feel like I can do anything, provided I work like crazy of course :db:

Enjoy :read:

marcus

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
--Sir Winston Churchill

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life."
--Confucius

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
-- Buddhist Saying

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan one of the NBA's greatest players

"A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.
--Celia Luce

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
-Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin.

I love motivational quotes...
I don't know if it's exactly motivational (it works for me) but I like:

Luck is the residue of experience.

For some reason that really resonates with my version of reality. The only time somebody can get really lucky with anything, is when they're experienced at it. Michael Jordan couldn't make a lot of those amazingly lucky shots if he'd never practiced...

- "Pain is just weakness leaving the body."

I really like that one.

nice! i like it now aswell...thanks for sharing! :tucool:

First, some wisdom from high school football:

"Excuses are like a**holes- everyone has one"

"If you got in a race with a pregnant woman, you'd come in third"

Some others-

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
-Gen. Patton

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Supposing is good; but finding out is better"
-Mark Twain

Got a few more:

“Failure is not an option.”

“There is no gene for the human spirit.”

“Nothing is written.”

“Before the gardens must come the fighting.”

Anyone noticing a pattern yet? ;)

Some of my favorites:

"If excellence is possible, then good is not enough!"

"In order to discover new oceans, you must have courage to lose site of the shore."

"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."

No Pain, No Gain! :p

Today is going to be a great day.

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"

Satisfaction is the death of desire.

"I'll give you something to cry about!" ...just kidding. The real quotes:

"Luck favors the prepared mind".

"If you can only count on one person, let it be yourself."

Reasons to workout now:

"If you wait until you are thirsty to dig a well, you are too late."

(and sorry so grim, but: )

A man who eats when he is not hungry digs his grave with his own teeth.""

Vince Lombardi:

[in case you don't know who the man is..http://www.vincelombardi.com/home.html ] :db:

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.


The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.


We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Mine:
"Go as far as the legs of reality will take you--then jump." - from the "Life of Pi"

Read my signature below for my fav. quote.

I have always liked "Rome wasn't built in a day"

Measure once, cut twice.

Arnold: " If it jiggles;it's fat"
not a great one but I like it. :spaz:

"It's better to be forgotten than remembered for giving in"

don't know where from, it seems to come to mind a lot during cardio.

my signature is one of my favorites.

The picture's funny, but I still try to live by the quote :D

http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/snom/nevergiveup.jpg

I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I want to say it again. Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.

Jimmy V's acceptence speech at the ESPN's espy (sports award) in '93

It's not demotivational, so, obviously, it must be motivational ;):

The worst part of valor is indiscretion.

(I'm not sure where it's from - maybe the bottom of /.)

Not entirely motivational, but I live my life by them... ;)

"Bad things happen to dumb people."
"It's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't care."

From those, you can probably tell I'm the heart and soul of a party! :D

A couple of mine are:

"A man's character is his fate."

"Asses prefer straw to gold."

Both Heraclitus.

D

I read Ali quotes before EVERY workout:

"I HATED EVERY MINUTE OF TRAINING, BUT I SAID 'DON'T QUIT, SUFFER NOW AND LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AS A CHAMPION!'"

"CHAMPIONS AREN'T MADE IN GYMS. CHAMPIONS ARE MADE FROM SOMETHING THEY HAVE DEEP INSIDE THEM: A DESIRE, A DREAM, A VISION. THEY HAVE TO HAVE LAST MINUTE STAMINA, THE HAVE TO BE A LITTLE BIT FASTER, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THE SKILL AND THE WILL. BUT THE WILL MUST BE STRONGER THAN THE SKILL!!!!"

"If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize!"

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want!!"

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, its the pebble in your shoe!"

"It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

"Impossible is nothing!"
"Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest."
"It's not bragging if you can back it up."
"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." -- Muhammad Ali

"Obsession is the lazy persons word for dedication"

I like this from Michael Jordan:

"I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times I have 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."

Measure once, cut twice.
Measure twice, cut once.

No idea who said it, but...

"Being fit doesnt mean things get any easier. It simply means you dont give up."

Rings true. Even when i train now, i still feel exausted. The difference is, i now keep on going.

New to the site, seems like my kinda place. :tucool:

"Though I walk through the valley in the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for I'm the meanest motherf***er in here!" - General Patton

One of my favorites

Another one that might help you guys here. Somthing i always think of.

"If your looking at the past, you've got ur back to the future."

Heres another good one...not really fitness related...but good advice none the less...

"Don't take life to seriously...you'll never get out alive."

Here's mine

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

"Keep going fattyboy/fat ass!!"

:db:

I believe Anger can accomplish more then vanity on it´s own.

:nod:

"If you are going to be a bear, be a grizzly!"

"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Matt. 19.25-27

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile"

"Courage is not the lack of fear, it is ACTING in spite of it!"

These are a few of my hundreds of favorites.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill

Don't worry about things that cannot worry about you.
- Unknown


Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

wow, how true

I've always lived by this one, it's from the movie The Secret Garden:

Mary: I hate the way you talk about dying.
Colin: Everyone thinks I'll die.
Mary: If everyone thought that about me, I wouldn't do it.


I also like this one:

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin


And one more:

Childhood is short, maturity is forever. - Calvin and Hobbes

"People who worry about things they can't effect never change the things they can"

"self discipline is a made up term to excuse bad decision making"

me :)

"You've got to be before you can do. You've got to do before you can have."
Zig Ziglar

We had a sign in one of the locker rooms that read "no one ever drowned in sweat".

Only as high
As I reach
Can I grow

Only as far
As I seek
Can I go

Only as deep
As I look
Can I see

Only as much
As I dream
Can I be

- Author unknown



"I've always wondered if there was a god, and now I know - and it's me!"

- Homer J Simpson

I was dithering over whether to apply to grad school and I said something like "I don't wanna be doing Job X for $12/hr when I'm 40" to a friend, and she came back with "you'll be 40 anyway, so shut up and go". well, I'm almost 42 now, and I went to grad school, and I'm not making $12/hr anymore. it of course took more than her quip to get me going, but sometimes the most obvious facts are sitting there staring at you and you'll still miss 'em.

Found this excellent e-book on quotes for success.

http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/successeva1.pdf

Marcus :cool:

1995 Orange Bowl, to determine the National Champion:

Warren Sapp - "Hey, Tommie, where you been?"

Tommie Frazier - "It's not where I've been, fat boy. It's where I'm going."

Frazier then set an NCAA record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 199, and was subsequently named the game's MVP.

Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you'll suck forever- unknown.

Be careful what you think. Your thoughts run your life - Proverbs 6:23 Daily Bible

Hope deferred makes the heart sick -Don't know but Dave Ramsey uses it all the time.

Where's the ass on this thing- Hank Hill

"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."

All from da ARNOLD. lol

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
-- Carl Bard

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max DePree

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it"
-- Art Williams

im not quite sure who said this but it goes something like this:

"there is no honor in being better than the other man, the honor is found in being better than your former self"

that inspires me in two ways, 1. to not care about what the next person over thinks and 2. in motivating me to better myself everyday to become better than who i was yesterday.

I have a small print of this one framed in my office:

"The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt -

I don't remember where I heard it, but I use it and it rings true.

someone else: I sure hope I can do this

me: well, you can hope in one hand and poo in the other and see which one fills up first

life is passion a man without passion dose not live.

"Tough situations go away. Tough guys dont."

"Most people say "I'll believe that when I see it.....actually it's the other

way around....you'll see it when you believe it." Dr.Wayne Dyer

"When the student is ready..the teacher appears". Chinese proverb.

"You don't get what you want....you get what you'll settle for "

" Today is the day that everything you were going to do Yesterday will yet again be put off until Tomorrow".

"Nothing succeeds like success"

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself "

"How do you eat an elephant? One spoonfull at a time"

" Don't take everything so seriously in this life. You're just passing through...."

" Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result " Albert Einstein.

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life "

" Sit by the river long enough and you'll see the bodies of your enemies floating by " Chinese proverb.

" The sky is the daily bread of man" Emerson.

"The mighty Oak was once a nut like you"