Motivational Quotes

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Here’s a few
**Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner

**Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
-John F. Kennedy

Are you more than what you have become

A few succeed because they were destined to, most succeed because they were determined to.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves, self-discipline with all of them came first.
-Harry S. Truman

**“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
Mary Frances Berry

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps

That which doesn’t kill you only delays the inevitable.

**Don’t let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

**You are better than this, don’t think you are, know you are.
~Morpheus

This one is long and it might sting a bit…
Human beings are the only creatures on the earth that are born into a natural state of disorientation with our world. That is while all other creatures are guided by instinct of which they are neither aware or have the capacity to question, each of us as human creatures was given the god like powers to create his or her own life. And each of us does exactly that all the years of his or her life. Every day we put in place actions and ideas that will determine the shape and substance of our tomorrows. For some those ideas and actions lead inevitably to extraordinary achievement and rewards. For most they tend to lead to a middle ground in which great numbers of people take their cues from each other without question or consideration. And for some, those actions and ideas lead to repeated frustrations and problems as they spend their lives in the bottom layers of the socioeconomic pyramid.
Success or failure as a human being is not a matter of luck, or circumstance, or fate, or the breaks, or who you know or any of the other tiresome old myths and clich?s by which the ignorant tend to excuse themselves.

Ok, that’s enough.

FatSensei

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What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. - Conan, Conan The Destroyer

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“The fault, Dear Brutus, is not with our stars but with ourselves.”

Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare

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“It is the man that looks outward to find excuses that will fail. The man that looks inward to find strength will be victorious and overcome.”
-TP190

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[quote]Vitamin T wrote:
“Victory is life!”- The Klingons. Yeah, I’m a Treky, WHAT?!

“Either come home a winner, or don’t come home!”-Someone from King of the Hill

“When you’re going into a cave to kill a lion, you can do 1 of 2 things: tip toe in and hope to suprise it, or run in screaming like a banshee, waving a torch in 1 hand and a machette in the other.”-Coach Mark Songy

“Step 3, act like you’re the shit.”-DH, Play Makers[/quote]

Ehehe… don’t want to contradict you, but that quote comes from the Jem’Hadar, a warrior race like the klingons ; )

Ok ok… so I’m a huge dork too so WHAT !?
; P

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I go through a lot of mental self-coaching before I hit the gym after a long day at work and I love to see the “motivational quotes” section on T-Mag when I come across a particularly notable gem… the one about the “little Chinese girl warming up with your max” had me laughing out of my chair. Here are a few of my personal favorites:

Hebrews 12:1

Though the present path be steep and rocky,
What lies ahead unknown,
Let us run with patience, Lord,
the race that is set before us.
Though friends may fail and desert us,
Foes ever present be,
Help us run with patience, Lord,
The race that is set before us.

“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” - Winston Churchill (used by the US NAvy SEALS)

I’ve got more but will post as my memory allows later on…

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First saw this on t-nation, but still one of my favorites:

“Do today what others won’t, so tomorrow you can do what others can’t.”

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Yep Theo rocks. Here’s one from Shakespeare (Shakespeare for gawds sake!):

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), “Julius Caesar”, Act 2 scene 2

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“Failure Is Not An Option!!”

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Noble things are hard. [or-]
The hard things are the noble ones. [xalepa ta kala]

-Greek proverb (Plato’s Republic)

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Since we seem to be doing Shakespeare, here’s one of my favorites.

This day is call’d the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say ‘To-morrow is St. Crispian’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s Day.’

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he’ll remember with advantages what feats he did that day: then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d, this story shall the good man teach his son, and Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, from this day to the ending of the world,but we in it shall be remembered;

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon St. Crispin’s Day.

Shakespeare’s “Henry V.”

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“somewhere a little chinese girl is warming up with your max”

ahahahhaha, AMAZING, absolutely AMAZING (and prolly true too).

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here is some of my all time favourites…

" just decide who you are going to be, just decide how your going to go about achieveing it, just decide" - les brown

" you cant be paralyzed by fear of faluire otherwise youll never push yourself " - arnold

" someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality" - unkown

" the people that get out of this world are the people that get up and look for the things they want and if they cant find them make them, well its pretty apparent isnt it, we become what we think about. it stands to reason that a person whose thinking about a definite and worth while goal is going to reach it because that what he is thinking about and we become what we think about. conversly the man who has no goal, who doesnt know where he is going and whose thoughts are therefore thoughts of confusion and anxiety and fear and worry becomes what he thinks about , his life becomes one of frustration , fear, anxiety and worry ,if he thinks about nothing, he will become nothing" - unkown

" remember that your only limitation which you set up in your own mind or permit others to set up for you" - unkown this one is my favourite quote of all time

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“THIS is how champions are made!” - Me (I repeat this to myself when I’m at the point in a set where I know most people would stop)

“Suffer now, and then live the rest of your life as a champion.” - Ali

“Hardwork can beat Genetics”

“The Harder I work, the better my genetics get!”

S

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This might be overkill but i’ve got a word doc with these in it:

Good luck is the result of hard work and dedication.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure and they’ll tell you that.

Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records.

Obstacles are those frightening things that you see when you take your eyes of your goals.

People who say things cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, it’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, it’s a dare. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

The measure of a man’s true character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man & I will show you a failure.

Desire to have more you can accomplish.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Your goal in the gym should be simple: more reps performed more explosively with more weight in less time.

Find yourself in a maniac’s mind: carnivorous, lusting and fulfilled by the atrocities you commit. Be assured in your dominance. Lick your canines and incisors, and smile. Now lift.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Addicted is just the word the lazy use to describe the motivated.

The only time ‘Success’ comes before ‘Work’ is in the dictionary.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

What would you attempt if you knew you would not fail?

No matter what you aspire to, someone else will always be better than you. Bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, richer, more skilled, better looking whatever. Do not measure yourself against them. Measure yourself against what you discover you can become.

You’re only as strong as your weakest link, and as efficient as your worst movement.

One day my body will not be able to do this. Today is not that day.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination. Start kicking ass, and take out the crap that doesn’t matter. Start doing and believing in the stuff that works, do it today and forever. You want science and studies? Fuck you. I’ve got scars and blood and vomit.
This is a call to arms for some of you. It is for me, too. Stop all the things that make you a pussy and steal your energy. Get your life back.

There are six million reasons for failure, but not one excuse.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

Crawling is acceptable. Falling is acceptable. Puking is acceptable. Tears are acceptable. Pain is acceptable. Injury is acceptable. Quitting is unacceptable.

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required

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[quote]willfull wrote:
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. - Conan, Conan The Destroyer[/quote]

The original is by Genghis Khan though.

I like :

“Everything comes to him who waits”
“Progress has nothing to do with speed, but direction”
“If I don’t find a way, I’ll make one”
“Do or do not, there is no try”
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
“Fortune favours the bold” (Audaces fortuna iuvat).
“Plus Ultra” (Roughly translated as Further Beyond).

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Tough times don’t last, Tough people do…unknown

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“You can talk yourself into or out of anything.”
-An old salesman I met in Jail

“You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.”
â?? Brad Warner

“The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.”
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6

“I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.” -
– G. G. Allin

â??Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it.â??
–Henry Rollins

“It’s better to do something than nothing.”

“Fuck It”
– Me

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“if you always do what you always did then you always get what you always got”

“everybody wants to be big but aint no body wanna lift no heavy ass weights”

-Big Ron

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“if we can fry a candy bar we can fry anything”-Bill Dauterive