Category: Motivational Quotes
Motivational Sports Quotes
The most important thing in sport is your motivation. You can’t be one of the best without motivation. Let me share with you some great motivational sports quotes.
“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.” – Martina Navratilova
“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret” – Sarah Bombell
“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.” – Willie Mays
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory.” – Vince Lombardi
“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.” – Babe Didrikson Zaharias
“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.” – John Wooden
“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Paul Bryant
“The Truth is that Running Hurts. No one gets faster without meeting their personal pain barrier straight on. No amount of junk miles, fun runs or affirmations are going to get you over the hill at the five mile mark in a 10k. However, what will pull you through is solid prep with hard hill runs and interval work.” – Manciata
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.” – Wilma Rudolph
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“If you believe in yourself, have dedication and pride and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.” – Paul Bryant
“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.” – Arthur Ashe
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” – Jerry West
“The answer to three questions will determine your success or failure.
1 – Can people trust me to do my best?
2 – Am I committed to the task in hand?
3 – Do I care about other people and show it?
If the answers to all three questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.” – Lou Holtz
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Leroy Paige
“Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.” – Bryan Moseley
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win–if you don’t, you won’t.” – Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.” – Gordie Howe
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” – Gale Sawers
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary
“It’s great to win, but it’s also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.” – Jack Nicklaus
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” – Vince Lombardi
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – George Herman “Babe” Ruth
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young
“If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” – Dick Vermeil
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline… I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.” – Vince Lombardi
“When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.” – Katarina Witt
“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” – Ron Jaworski
“Just do what you do best.” – Red Auerbach
“I didn’t just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn’t let the lows get to me.” – Lance Armstrong
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” – Winston Churchill
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
Get Over Yourself Quotes
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. – The Buddha
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. – Norman Vincent Peale
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. – Oprah Winfrey
Get Over It Quotes
My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. – The Movie Forrest Gump
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. – Oprah Winfrey
Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mohandas Gandhi
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. – Lee Iacocca
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. – Anne Sullivan
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on. – Bill Cosby
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. – William James
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means moving on. – Anonymous
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Be original
“You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?” – Bernadette Peters
The Power of Words – Motivational Video
This is not actually a quote, but this motivational video surely will make your day brighter.
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Edward Everett Hale Motivational Quote
Motivational Life Quote
“Life is to short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right and forget the ones that don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a change, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” – Anonymous
Quick Motivational Quote
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahnuik
Famous Motivational Quotes
– “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll
– “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
– “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
– “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
– “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
– “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker
– “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
– “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker