Inspire

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. "

Maya Angelou

"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


"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant, Columnist



"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift."
- Steve Prefontaine



“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer


“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
Jack Kinder



“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
Rosalyn Carter



“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
C. Malesherbes


“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Jim Ryun



“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

 Stephen R. Covey



"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan



"The only one who can tell you 'you can't ' is you. And you don't have to listen."
- Nike



"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."



- Harriet Woods




The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.



- Arthur C. Clarke



"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.”

 -Zig Ziglar


"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."



-Babe Ruth

 
"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."


-Benjamin Franklin



“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”



- Sir Winston Churchill



"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘Here comes number seventy-one’!"



-Richard DeVos



"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!"


-Audrey Hepburn



"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."



Lance Armstrong