So, I started another log on here and (for those of you who choose to read my nonsense) you know that I add an inspiring quote to each workout…
Well, I am getting tired of scouring the web for these when I know many of you already have some great ones at the front of your minds.
So anyone have any good ones that inspire you to work harder, be better, or are insightful off the top of your heads?
Thanks in advance to those of you who throw any out here…You are saving me a ton of time
[“When did you know you’d won the race, Steve?”
“After 250 metres.” “D’you mean with 250 metres to go,” Steve Rider corrected me, clearly thinking I’d be crazy to imagine the race won after only an eighth of the distance. “No, I mean after 250 metres,” I wasn’t joking.
Belief doesn’t spring from nowhere. It arrives because you work like a dog for years and years and years.
Self-belief is probably the most crucial factor in sporting success. The bodies are roughly equal, the training is similar, the techniques can be copied, what separates the achievers is nothing as tangible as split times or kilograms. It is the iron in the mind, not the supplements, that wins medals.]
-Sir Steve Redgrave on winning his 5th consecutive Olympic gold.
If I am not for myself, who is for me?
And being for my own self, what am I?
If not now, when? --Hillel the Elder
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and will be satisfied.
Nietzsche makes me feel VERY typical with this. It also gives me the answer as to why I feel shitty…even when things are actually good.
I don’t know if this fits what you are looking for, but I ran across this the other day and it has been rolling around in my head:
“The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It is no longer, as it was for centuries throughout Europe, the church that imposes its fantasy on the populace, nor is it the totalitarian super state that imposes the fantasy, as it did for 12 years in Nazi Germany and for 69 years in the Soviet Union. Now the fantasy that prevails is the all-consuming, voraciously consumed popular culture, seemingly spawned by, of all things, freedom. The young especially live according to beliefs that are thought up for them by society’s most unthinking people and by the businesses least impeded by innocent ends. Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn to their detriment, into the moronic amusement park that is now universal, the preponderance of the power is not with them.”
-Philip Roth
“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
Less than 100 years later this is kind of starting to sound and look familiar, isn’t it?
Just wait. I’ve been stocking up on guns and ammo ever since Obama got re-elected.
“When you’re alone at night, lying in bed, that’s when your truly alone in the world. If you can’t be at peace with who you are, what you’ve done, and where you’re going in life, then nobody can bring you that peace because you’re alone at that point. You have to be on a path that allows you to find this peace on your own.”
This quote was posted many years back on here by a poster who’s friend’s dad was dying of cancer if I remember correctly. Apparently the dad told this to him at the time. I read it and loved it, memorized it and used to repeat it to myself daily.
Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can’t have. It’s no fun facing that but that’s the way things are.
- Captain James T. Kirk “Charlie X”
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
“our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” – confucius
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – winston churchill
'“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” -Socrates
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“Each human being was given a virtue: the ability to choose. Anyone who fails to use this virtue transforms it into a curse, and others will choose for them.” -Coelho
“Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.” -unknown
“Some men succeed because they are destined to, But most men succeed because the are determined to.” -Unknown
“If you think you can’t, you’re right and if you think you can, you’re right again” -Henry Ford
“Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again” -Henry Ford
“When you have dreams, facts don’t count” -Unknown
Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them
Chesty Puller
“The government stays awake all night, to find a way to screw you during the day” - my dad
“To trust is good, but not to trust is better.” - also from my dad.
“It’s mind over matter, I don’t mind because you don’t matter.” - my coach.
“No one rides for free.” - also from my coach.
“I don’t know why women are so uptight, they get half the money and keep all the pussy.” - Gary Busey
“Never trust a big butt and a smile.” - BBD
“Better you than me.” - Kevin Dillon from Platoon.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
“The government stays awake all night, to find a way to screw you during the day” - my dad
“To trust is good, but not to trust is better.” - also from my dad.
“It’s mind over matter, I don’t mind because you don’t matter.” - my coach.
“No one rides for free.” - also from my coach.
“I don’t know why women are so uptight, they get half the money and keep all the pussy.” - Gary Busey
“Never trust a big butt and a smile.” - BBD
“Better you than me.” - Kevin Dillon from Platoon.
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Haha, i wouldn’t say these are motivational, but funny nonetheless.
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
“The government stays awake all night, to find a way to screw you during the day” - my dad
“To trust is good, but not to trust is better.” - also from my dad.
“It’s mind over matter, I don’t mind because you don’t matter.” - my coach.
“No one rides for free.” - also from my coach.
“I don’t know why women are so uptight, they get half the money and keep all the pussy.” - Gary Busey
“Never trust a big butt and a smile.” - BBD
“Better you than me.” - Kevin Dillon from Platoon.
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Haha, i wouldn’t say these are motivational, but funny nonetheless. [/quote]
Are you kidding ? When I heard these as a kid I couldn’t wait to grow up to attain this level of shamelessness.
It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God given right to have it.
Jon Krakauer
You can talk and talk but sooner or later…you have to put a fist in someone’s face. My father
“I do not love the bright sword for it’s sharpness, nor the arrow for it’s swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
–Tolkien
Thanks for stepping up with these everyone!
“… Every man in every walk of life is certain, sooner or later, to be confronted with a heavy object, bulky or otherwise, which he strongly desires to lift. This may occur both in his business and in his private life, and I am willing to bet that each and every man on such occasion entertains a certain amount of regret for the wasted hours which he might have advantageously devoted to practise with weights.” - Arthur Saxon, in 1910
"Any real strong man has to have the trapezius muscles developed to a high extent, and that is why weight lifters have sloping shoulders. If you see a man whose shoulders apparently go out in straight lines from the base of the neck, that man is weak. " - Alan Calvert, in 1924
“I used to be in here doing cardio with the oven on, my sweet potatoes cooking, all the burners on the stove on. The place so hot, you think the devil was sitting over there talking to you like, ‘Do you really wanna do this cardio?’” - Kai Greene
“At the end of the day, it’s your responsibility to stay on target with your goals. Your goals, your dreams, are important to you. Your mother may love you, but she doesn’t care whether or not your arms are 24 inches. She’s still gonna love you. Well, maybe most moms.” - Kai Greene
“I don’t have talent, I have tenacity. I have discipline. I have focus.” - Henry Rollins
“I’m a big believer in failing gloriously in the cause of trying to do something interesting.” - Anthony Bourdain
“Guess what, my friend? We will all die. We will all be in a lot of pain. It’s all coming our way. It’s inevitable. It’s part of life. But in the mean time, you might as well be a fucking savage and live your life the way you wanna live. And you might as well put your best effort and your best foot forward and train like a motherfucker.” - Mark Bell
“Why don’t you go out to your car, open the glovebox, grab your balls, put them on, then come back in and train with us men.” - Kirk Karwoski
“The first thing I would tell a younger me is, ‘be more intense at everything.’ If it means resting, rest intense. If you’re gonna train, train intense. If you’re gonna love, love intense. But do it with passion. Without passion, it’s nonexistent. What’s the purpose?” - Harry Selkow
“Training is a taco.” - Jim Wendler