Motivational Quotes

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day.

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

That's a good weight...for a small woman

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve