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Fitness Motivational Quotes

1. Strive for progress, not perfection. –Unknown

2. You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. –Maya Angelou

3. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. –Unknown

5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. –Ruth E. Renkl

6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. –Mahatma Gandhi

7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. –Norman R. Augustine

8. I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. –George Burns

9. Energy and persistence conquer all things. –Benjamin Franklin

10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

fitness motivational quotes11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. –Aesop

12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein

13. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. –Lou Holtz

14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. –Jim Ryan

15. I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

16. Fear is what stops you… courages is what keeps you going. –Unknown

17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. –Unknown

18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. –Steve Smith

19. Just do it.™ –Nike

20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. –Anonymous

21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain

22. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. –Anonymous

23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. –Oprah Winfrey

24. It’s never too late to become what you might have been. –George Elliot

25. Clear your mind of can’t. –Samuel Johnso

Top 10 Doing Your Best Quotes

1. I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. ~ Michael Jordan

2. You’ve just got to do the best that you can. ~ Drew Barrymore

3. When you reach the top, keep climbing. ~ Proverb

4. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey

5. We must become the change we want to see. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

6. Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ~ Mae West

7. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

8. You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. ~ Barbara Bush

9. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” ~ Charles de Lint

Belive in Yourself Quotes

There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself. – Sam Kao

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. – William Shakespeare

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. – Jennifer Capriati

Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself. – Lady Gaga

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. – Sugar Ray Robinson

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do. – Martina Navratilova

If you don’t ask because you might be refused, you’ve already refused yourself. – Nisandeh Neta

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching. and live like it’s heaven on earth. – Mark Twain

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. – Adele Brookman

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination. – Cornelia Funke

You’re only a victim when you allow yourself to be one. – Primadonna Angela

The mind should dance with the body, and the whole universe is your stage. Try to feel that whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing, the prettiest dance, because you are dancing with the whole Universe. – Yogi Bhajan

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.  – Irisa Hail

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. – Allen H. Neuharth

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” – George Reeves

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. – Dan Zadra

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. – Truman Capote

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be. – Karen Ravn

Never dull your shine for somebody else. – Tyra Banks

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.” – Author Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. – Paula Cole

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. – Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. – Buckminster Fuller

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown

Famous Failure Quotes

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. – Buddha

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. – Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. – John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. – John Wooden

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. – Tony Robbins

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.  – Tony Robbins

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. – Zig Ziglar

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. – Confucius

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. – Barack Obama

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. – Barack Obama

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

Motivational Michael Jordan Quotes

– “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
– “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
– “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
michael-jordan– “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
– “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
– “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”

– “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

– “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

– “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Doing Your Best Quotes

# People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.–Malcolm Kushner

# People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.–Warren Bennis

# A problem is a chance for you to do your best.–Duke Ellington

# A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.–Alistair Cooke

# The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.–Edgar W. Work

# Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world–making the most of one’s best.–Harry Emerson Fosdick

# The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# The right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.–Mahatma Gandhi

# Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.–Les Brown

# Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.–Willis Whitney

# Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.–David Letterman

# Still this planet’s soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.–Goethe (Faust Part Two)

# The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

# There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.–Charles D. Gill

# There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.–Admiral Willian “Bull” Halsey

# There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.–Jan Ashford

# There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.–Soren Kierkegaard

# There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.–Art Turock

# Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.–Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

# We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.–Anonymous

# We become what we do.–Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

# We do not have to be the best to be effective, but we do have to be at our best.–Bob Briner (Roaring Lambs)

# We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.–Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine – June 24, 2003)

# We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.–Mother Teresa

# We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.–Seneca

# Well done is better than well said.–Benjamin Franklin

# What I do today is important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it.–Anonymous

# Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.–Charles Dickens

# When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”–Erma Bombeck

# When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.–Helen Keller (Out of the Dark)

# When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.–William Arthur Ward

# The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.–Edward Gibbon

# You can’t always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.–Anita Hill

# 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

# You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.–Michael Jordan

# You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.–Marian Wright Edelman

Failure Quotes

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. – Donald Trump

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. – Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. – Dale Carnegie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. – Dale Carnegie

Inspirational Quotes

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller

“Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” –Ezra Taft Benson

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Start where you are with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied. – George Washington Carver

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” – Michael Jordan

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Never, never, never, never ever give up!” – Winston Churchill

Famous Motivational Sports Quotes

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. – Mike Ditka

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. – Walter Payton

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

In the 8th winning you can’t hear the roar of the 9th. All you can do to hold yourself together, and trust. – Jim Abbott

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I’m done. – Tom Osborne

Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

Mottos for Success #2

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.” ~ Robert Collier

“Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don’t have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ~ Walter Gagehot

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ~ Bill Cosby

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” ~ John Foster Dulles

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

“Keep these concepts in mind: You’ve failed many times, although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. . . . Don’t worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ~ Sherman Finesilver

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” ~ B.C Forbes

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.” ~ Tennessee Williams

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” ~Sam Ewing”A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ~ Bob Dylan

“Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.” ~ Walt Disney

“I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers