Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Michelangelo
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something will take it’s place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Socrates
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Walter Gagehot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Joseph O’ Connor
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. If what you
are doing is not working, do something else.
Muhammad Ali
Don’t count the days; make the days count.
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Kobe Bryant
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Unknown
It never gets easier, you just get stronger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Muhammad Ali
The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.
Unknown
You’ve only got three choices in life — give up, give in, or give it all you’ve got.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Unknown
Failure teaches success.
Nido Qubein
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Booker T Washington
Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.Unknown
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
Jean de La Bruyere
No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.
Bruce Lee
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.
Unknown
Your fears form a prison that confines you. The less you fear, the more power you have.
Confucius
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Henry C. Link
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Ferdinand Foch
The most powerful force on earth is the human soul on fire.
Unknown
We’re all born small and weak. We all grow old and weak. What you do in between is up to you.
Unknown
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Unknown
You deserve what you settle for.
Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Douglas Everett
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Unknown
I will do what you won’t today, so I can do what you can’t tomorrow.
Unknown
I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.
Edward B. Butler
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Napolean Hill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.
M. Scott Peck
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Latin proverb (Si ventus non est, remiga.)
If there is no wind, row.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Muhammad Ali
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Will Smith
If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen… either you’re going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
Wesley Woo
To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail.
Karen Lamb
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
George Sheehan
It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
Bernard Malamud
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.
Alexis Carrel
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
T. E. Lawrence
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
Thomas A Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Vince Lombardi
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Bruce Lee
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.