Motivational Quotes - Page 104

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.