"Excellence is an art won by training and
habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we
rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle
the harder the conflict, the more glorious the
triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only
that gives every thing its value."
Thomas Paine
"Difficulty is the excuse history never
accepts."
Edward R. Murrow
"I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains
of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a
hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody
else."
Lance Armstrong
"Success is not
measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and
the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming
odds."
Orison Swett Marden
"Pain. Love it, hate
it, get angry at it. Breath it with every breath, feel it with every step and
use it. It lets you know you are still alive, more alive than most people will
be in their whole lives."
Strauss
"Scars heal...glory
fades..and all we're left with are the memories made. Pain hurts, but only for
a minute, yeah life is short, so go on and live it"Megan Rose
Leighliter
To give anything less than
your best is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve Prefontaine
Don't allow anyone to tell
you what you can and cannot do. Be tough, be stubborn, love yourself, and find
friends who believe in you. Recognize your victories."
Joan Benoit
Samuelson
"If you are ever going
to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing
to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle."
Meredith
Rainey Valmon
"Far better is it to
dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failures, than
to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat"
Teddy Roosevelt
"The main cause of
failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the
moment."
"Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you
did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
"Ever tried? Ever
failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
Don't wish it were easier;
wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't
wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
"We should not let our
fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
JFK
"The good Lord gave you a
body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince."
Vincent
Lombardi
"The good is ever the enemy
of the best"
Dr. Charles E. Diehl
"It is not enough that we do
our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
Winston Churchill
"There will come a
point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a
choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide."
Rolf Arands
These are but a few of my favorites; however they are some that have been the most motivational and that I have come to realize how true they really are. Hope you all enjoy.
