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2010-08-16 11:08 AM


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I'm always looking for new ones, and would love to hear yours!

2010-08-16 12:08 PM
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-  Get busy living or get busy dying.

-  A body in motion tends to stay in motion.

-  Someday I won't be able to do this - today is not that day.


I love bumper-sticker type quotes but I hear a lot of people use them but don't live them.  For example, I've heard/read people talk about living their lives so they have no regrets....but they live very conservative lives, never take grand vacations, never sign up for a marathon or some other race that is out of their comfort zone.  So my thinking is, live your life in such a way that no one has to ask or wonder about your bumper-sticker or manatra....they can see it in how you live. 

~Mike

ETA - if you want to find some good quotes, do a little surfing on people's logs.  Many people have their favorite quote on the dashboard of their log.



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This is my favorite all time quote (Theodore Roosevelt, 1910), known as "The Man in The Arena":

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

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"I may not win. I may not place, but I will finish. For what is the point in stopping what you have started? You only cheat yourself. But worse than that, you have stolen from those that have supported you. Their sacrifices are greater than yours...To sacrifice for another is true sacrifice, not the selfish sacrifice of one for himself."
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Cindymc - 2010-08-16 6:08 AM I'm always looking for new ones, and would love to hear yours!


"If we only worked hard on the days we felt good, we wouldn't get much done."
-Pat Riley-

"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war."
 
2010-08-16 12:18 PM
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Suck it up, princess.

2010-08-16 12:27 PM
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From my trainer, Ming the Merciless, usually just before we start:

Only one rule, Don't Die.


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"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 I could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'"

Erma Bombeck


2010-08-16 12:30 PM
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Never, never, never quit.
-Winston Churchill

 
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2010-08-16 12:34 PM
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Shut up and swim

2010-08-16 12:44 PM
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."  ~Henry Ford

"If you believe in yourself and have dediccation and Pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner.  The price of victory is high but so are the rewards." Paul "Bear" Bryant

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Because I Can
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one from my wife the other day when i was getting on her nerves "P**s off and go for a run"
2010-08-16 12:51 PM
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The only easy day was yesterday.

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"I will do today what other will not, so I can do tomorrow what others cannot."

I have that quote hung up in my classroom for my students.

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spudone - 2010-08-16 12:51 PM The only easy day was yesterday.

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I like it.

"The easy way is always mined."  - US Army saying

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"Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun

"Because you said I can't."

 
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."
Lance Armstrong

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I've always liked "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

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trinnas - 2010-08-16 10:27 AM From my trainer, Ming the Merciless, usually just before we start:

Only one rule, Don't Die.


I like all these quotes...they are all great, but this one cracked me up.

I can just see a coach right before a swim, " You're going to do great, you are ready for this, get every bit energy you have out, push till the end, you know you can do it..................oh, and don't die.....ok, off you go, cheers!"

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Some of those are priceless! lol

I love the "Suck it up, Tinkle-Fairy" that my friends keep telling me when I start whinging about stuff.

"I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed. "

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popsracer - 2010-08-16 1:29 PM "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 I could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'" Erma Bombeck

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That struck a cord! Wow-had NEVER heard that one before!

One of my favs:

Are you gonna throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face!
2010-08-16 1:31 PM
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That's an image from a local gym who's website I go to get inspired sometimes. By far my favorite thing to say to myself, especially while running. I find that when I decide to walk during a run, that quote helps me keep going.
2010-08-16 1:34 PM
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Someone here has a tagline w/ a Lance A quote saying something like "Pain is temporary, quitting is forever". I like this quite a bit. Had it go through my head this AM about 4:45 as I slogged through a run I did NOT want to do (but did it anyway.)
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