Great Motivational Quotes

[Jay Hagadorn]

Here are some cool motivational quotes. If you have any add them up.

Oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks

They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength; they shall mount up their wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. — Bible, Isaiah 40:31

He who has great power should use it lightly.

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. "--
William Shakespeare

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."--
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on 'giving as good as they get."--
Elbert Hubbard

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
Carlos Castaneda

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Kellee_Rassau]

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." - Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. " - Mark Twain

"If it had not been for the wind in my face, I would have never been able to fly."
- Arthur Ashe

[Brendan Merchant]

"Squat more" - Jesse Marunde

[ADAMBAUER]

"The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth."
-- Maxwell Maltz, Surgeon


"One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-- Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher

[Ryan Bracewell]

"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." James A. Garfield

"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win." Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. Martina Navratilova (1956 - )

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun-tzu (~400 BC)

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 nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)


And....not motivational but one I really like

"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that!"

[Joshua Davis]

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Aristotle

[Joshua Davis]

Oh, Jay...



"People do not lack strength, they lack will."

Victor Hugo said that.

[Gabriel Wells]

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
-Confucius

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
-Confucius

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

[IdrisH.]

"Do not turn your face away from people with pride, or walk arrogantly through the Earth. Surely God does not like any arrogant show-off. Be moderate in your gait, and lower your voice. Truely, the harshest of all voices is the braying of the donkey."--Quran, Chapter 31: Verses 18-19

"The strong man is not the one who knocks others down, but the one who controls himself when angry."--The Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)

[Matt Lebo]

Courage is resistance to fear-mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Highly quotable man!

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abe Lincoln

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
There are a lot of great dog quotes but I love this one...

[MalachiMcMullen]

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spens himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with these cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage."

— Ernst Junger

"It is better to deserve honours and not have them, than to have them and not to deserve them."

— Mark Twain

and my favorite for a long while now...

Those who would give up essential liberties in return for temporary safety deserves neither and recieves none.
-Ben Franklin

[Thomas "The Hawk" Eriksen]

" I accept failure, but I can't accept not trying" - M.Jordan.


"People too weak to follow their own dreams, will allways find a way to discourage yours!"

[Brandon Campbell]

"if your not first, your last"
:LOL:

[Lou Torres]

"Everyone Dies But Not Everyone Lives"

[Justin Blake]

Champions Are Made, Not Born

[Robert Anthony]

http://home.hia.no/~stephens/quotes.htm

[MarkSikora]

Runner Steve Prefontaine had a bunch of good ones:

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."

"What I want is to be number one."

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. "

and my favorite (spied on a shirt worn by Sean Demarinis recently)

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." :YT:

I really wish I learned that lesson a long long time ago......


see ya

Mark

[Jonathan Macfarlane]

Are you ready for a war?

William Wallace: And if this is your army, why does it go?
Veteran: We didn't come here to fight for them!
Young Soldier: Home! The English are too many!
William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.
Young Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!
William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
[Scottish army laughs]
William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men... and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran: Against that? No! We will run. And we will live.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
[Scottish army cheers]
William Wallace: Alba gu bra!
["Scotland forever!"]
Army: ALBA GO BRA!

[jay lyttle]

defeat is only for those who will accept it
to those who say it cant be done, do not disturb those who are doing it
train hard become a champion, train hardest become a legend
it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. but you'll have alot more fun if your winning
it's not how big you are, it's how big you play
i cant wait till tomorrow, cuz i get stronger everyday

[supermagnamon]

"Dan Harrison is the SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!!!" - Brady Jones

[Corey DuCharme]

Young Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!
William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.

In reality he was close to seven feet tall, 6'9" I think? I don't know about the lightning bolts, but he probably did eat Haggis, so there's a possibility.

Great Quotes??? Anything Paul Neuhaus says!!!!

[Brandon Lilly]

You can train a man in the ways of a warrior,you can dress him like a warrior, you can call him a warrior,you can put him on the battlefield,but you can never give him the heart of a warrior,in the end the man with the heart of a warrior will be the last standing. Spartan Creed

[DaneGarreau]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Got another quote on those same lines...

"Is it not unthinkable that a society might attain such a consciousness of power that it cuold allow itself the noblest luxery possible to it--- letting those who harm it go unpunished. 'What are my parasites to me?' it might say. 'May they live and prosper: I am strong enough for that!'"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

[Wolfgang Hasenmaier]

"et asperas et astra" to the sense of through very rough territory to the... stars

[Eric Jett]

The road to Hell is paved with people with great potential.
-Don Hornbeck

Do it right. Do it right and quick. Do it right and quick every time.
-Don Hornbeck

Just like the wheelbarrow, if you only go as far as you are pushed, you better be ready for all the other athletes to pass you by.
-Don Hornbeck

I'm not what I wanna be, not what I'm gonna be, not what I should be, but I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
-Don Hornbeck

Many people miss opportunity knocking because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-?

You have no options.
-Dan Gable

But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
-Luke 12:48

[Jonathan Macfarlane]

In reality he was close to seven feet tall, 6'9" I think? I don't know about the lightning bolts, but he probably did eat Haggis, so there's a possibility.

Great Quotes??? Anything Paul Neuhaus says!!!!

Looks like 6'7-6'9 with Longshanks being a brute too. They would have towered over the average Scot.

My favourite bit of Wallace history is how Princess Isabella in reality was 10-13 years old when Wallace was killed. They did not have a kid together!

[Dan Eberhardt]

The best time to start something was yesterday.

[Wolfgang Hasenmaier]

"You have to be willing to do what others don't, to become what others won't..."

Jesse Marunde

[Vincent Dizenzo]

I find this one very motivational in a twisted way that we can all relate to considering what we do to our bodies.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting “Holy s--t, what a ride!"