Inspirational Quotes
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain ~
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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T. S. Eliot ~
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank ~
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The miracle isn't that I finished, it's that I had the courage to start.
~ Penguin Chonicles ~
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What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
~ Nietschze ~
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Small can beat big, but you have to have a plan.
~ Bryce Courtenay ~
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It's better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Neil Young ~
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If you're not living life on the edge, then you're taking up too much space.
~ Anonymous ~
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A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Lao-Tsu ~
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Fulfillment in life comes from dreaming the impossible dream.
~ Sri Chinmoy ~
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If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr ~
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Any race you can walk away from, is a bad race.
~ Coach Pete Waters ~
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
~ Anonymous ~
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Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
~ George Sheehan ~
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The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller ~
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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers ~
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein ~
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius ~
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A few years ago a Vietnam veteran who had had both of his legs blown off finished
one of Americas major marathons in a time of about 3 and a half days, he did so by hopping along with his hands under a Police
escort. I can't even remember his name but I will never forget his quote to the press as he crossed the finish line :
"We all have our Handicaps in life, but the biggest handicap of all is not trying".
~ Anonymous ~
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The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walther Bageholt ~
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You cannot discover new oceans until you have the
courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Anonymous ~
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Courage is the capacity to move from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm in between.
~ Anonymous ~
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain".
~ Dolly Parton ~
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"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope
of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well".
~ G. K. Chesterton ~
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"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can
change the world are usually the ones who do".
~ Anonymous ~
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Randy Victory (yep, his real name) issued the following instructions to his
crew prior to his first Leadville Trail 100 mile moutainbike race, in 1998.
"I'll want to die. I'll want to quit. Let me die, just don't let me quit."
~ Randy Victory ~
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people
can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has".
~ Margaret Mead, Anthropologist ~
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"Be steady and well-ordered in your life
so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
~ Gustav Flaubert ~
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"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what
happens; not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction
of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst...a spark that creates extraordinary results."
~ Anonymous ~