Fitness Quotes - Looking for great quotes on life and motivation?

Looking for great quotes on life and motivation?

Hi, I am compiling an ebook and looking for some great quotes on life and motivation. Please send as many as possible with the name of the person associated with it. Thanks in advance

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
if your not first your last, Ricky Bobby
"there is nothing better than a piece of pu*sy, except maybe the indy 500" -Kevin Dillon (bunny) Platoon. best quote ever.
Check out the various Chinese Proverbs, there are thousands, and they simply explain some of life's most basic tenets.
Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. This is my favorite quote ever: Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"--first person who attempted to re-invent the wheel, Nigel Studcap.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace {Quintus Horatius Flaccus} 65-8 B.C.
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO - What a ride!" "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Nin Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein "If you think you can, you're right. If you think you CANT, you're also right. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead "If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is thinking." Everything you can imagine is real Wealth is the ability to fully experience life Henry David Thoreau Whatever you can or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. GOETHE
The following are sayings that I collected to use on the marquee on my screen saver. Not all are on life or motivation, but many are. Also, I did not have the originator of some of them. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson "Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them: but I can look up, and see their beauty; believe in them and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott "What makes the desert beautiful," said the Little Prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well." Antoine De Saint Exupery I never see what has been done . . . I only see what remains to be done. Madame Curie Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African proverb No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars . . . or sailed to an uncharted land . . . or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller I'm not afraid of storms . . . for I am learning to sail my ship. Louisa Mae Alcott We must become the change we want to see. Gandhi Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. John Dewey The trouble with being open-minded is that your brains might fall out. -unknown (other than that it was an essay assignment at the University of Colorado in the 1960's) Just take one day at a time, unless they all attack you at once. Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." "You don't stop laughing because you grow old...you grow old because you stopped laughing." Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it. He who angers you controls you. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop. Your attitude more than your aptitude determines your success in life. - Clyde Emery "It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt." --Abraham Lincoln "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." --George Eliot "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." --Josh Billings "The only way to fail is to quit" Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed. -- Norman Vincent Peale "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." Babe Ruth (February 6, 1895-1948) "It matters if you just don't give up." Stephen Hawking "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." E. Joseph Cossman "Your body hears everything your mind says." Naomi Judd (January 11, 1946) "I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future." Ralph Abernathy "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." Irving Berlin "We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." Adelle Davis (February 25, 1904-1974) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle "Aging is mandatory; maturity is optional." - Chris Antorak "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others." - Socrates "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." "You don't stop laughing because you grow old...you grow old because you stopped laughing." "For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~~B. Dioum "Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave but there is no reason to be in the passing lane." - Robert Orben The best prescription is knowledge. - Dr C. Everett Koop In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man--if you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher Dilbert's Rules Of Order I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. (NOTE: With modern technology, it would probably need to be a planner or a palm pilot.) If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" Only the mediocre are at their best all the time. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased the line. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. If at first you don't succeed.... skydiving isn't for you. Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Politicians and diapers have one thing in common; they should both be changed regularly for the same reason. An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true. There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. I am having an out of money experience. I plan on living forever. So far, so good. It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. The sign on the door to success says, "Push." -Unknown The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. "Aging is mandatory; maturity is optional." - Chris Antorak Oh normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are!
Search at Yahoo with keyword "Chinese proverb", you can find some links relevant to Chinese proverb in English. You can also search at Yahoo China with keyword "格言", then you can find links relevant to original Chinese proverb.
My favorite quote of all time: "...I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage." --John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley"
One night i had a dream. I as walking on the beach with my Lord. Across the dark skies flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two set of footprints in the sand. one belong to me and one to my Lord. When the last scene of my life flashed before me. I look back at the footprints in the sand to my surprise, I noticed that many times along the path of my life the was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life. This always bothered me. and i questioned the Lord about my dilemma. "Lord, you told me when i decided to follow you, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I'm aware that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when i needed You most, You leave me" He whispered " MY precious child, I love you and will never leave you never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set or footprints it was then that i carried you"
I always liked the old Arabic proverb, "Trust in God, but tie your camel." I have quote-o-rama bookmarked (first link below). Some are hit or miss, but here's a good one: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know in this world, and all ye need to know. ~John Keats And the definitive source, of course, is Bartlett's -- on line at Bartleby.com
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