Motivational Quotes

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

I don't fight. I don't believe in it.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby, baby.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.

If you could have won, you should have.

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.