Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Motivation.

The repository contains 97 quotes in the category “Motivation.”
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In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is, “Hit the line hard.”

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

Even if you’re on the right path, you’ll get hit if you just sit there.

Unknown

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Unknown

The strong fall down but the weak stay down.

Unknown

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.

Arabic Proverb

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890 — 1969

I have not yet begun to fight.

Captain John Paul Jones
1747 — 1792

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.

Alistair Cooke
1908 — 2004

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman
1912 — 2006

Those of you in your twenties have the feeling that time is something of which you have an endless supply. Again, take it from someone who has been on this planet a good deal longer than most of you have, that is not the case.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
1924 — 2005

Commencement address
Marymount University
2002

If man could live forever, he’d still be a fish. Why would he evolve? He could always do it later.

Aki Soga

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell
1847 — 1922

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Doctor Alexis Carrel
1873 — 1944

If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields
1880 — 1946

You’ll always miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take.

Wayne Gretzky
1961 —     

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi
1913 — 1970

The harder you train, the harder it is to give up.

Vince Lombardi
1913 — 1970

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi
1913 — 1970

If you live without feeling the need to change, or the courage to make the change, then you merely exist.

Brandon Abernathy
1958 — 2001

If you think you have things under control, you’re not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti
1940 —     

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