"MOTIVATION"
"There is no such thing as an extraordinary person. There are only ordinary people continuing on where others give up. The moment one passes the "Give Up Point", EVERYTHING looks EXTRAORDINARY!"
Copyright © 1985 Sharole B. Kaes
"You can push me, but I stand still. You can hit me, but I feel no pain. You can scream anything, but I will not hear. You will never bring me down because I will not let you get to me. Watch me win!"
Larry Childs --- Submitted by Shane F. --- Illinois
"If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will."
Copyright © 2005 Nagesh Jadhav
"Excellence Inspires, Experience it!"
Copyright © 2005 Vashi Chandiramani
"Keymakers: Some people see a closed door and turn away. Others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't work they turn away. Still others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If the key doesn't fit, they turn away. A rare few see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If it doesn't fit, they make one."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Amanda J. --- Montana
This quote was given to my team right before our playoff game for the State championship. It made a lot of us realize that things aren't just handed over and given to you. You actually have to work hard to achieve.
"The ultimate motivator is defeat. Once you are defeated, you have nowhere to go except the top."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sufian Hussainkhan --- Andhra Pradesh, India
It is defeat that turns gristle into muscle. It is defeat that makes men INVINCIBLE. People never accept the defeat. Defeat will never come to a person until he admits it.
"There is a false belief within our society that to be a winner you have to hit a home run each and every time you go to hit the ball. In reality very few human beings can turn out these sorts of averages. Simply, a winner keeps trying to hit the ball until he hits more than he misses; losers quit."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by N.E. --- Western Australia, Australia
Roughly from "A Piece of Daddy's Heart", a novel (or possibly autobiography) my aunt was reading when I was much younger. This passage stuck with me for years of competitive ice-skating where expectations are high, demands physically, mentally and financially are numerous, standards of sportsmanship are low, rewards are short lived and many with youth and talent don't persist.
"Motivation is the key to success. Failure is the product of loss of motivation. Together we can learn that not trying and failing, is worse then trying and failing. For when you try and fail, you learn from your mistake and while doing nothing provides, not only empty promises but empty lives."
Jordan Duncan --- Submitted by J.D. --- Pennsylvania
"Back on the 1st day in the 1st century, a person invented this thing called SUCCESS because he knew I was on the way."
Copyright © 2005 Mario Williams
Success was invented for all of us to have. So why not get it? It's free.
"A good leader is like a ladder that gives his followers an opportunity to reach a higher level of success."
Copyright © 2005 Jose B. Cabajar
"Start what is necessary, then the possible and suddenly you are going to do impossible."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Yasir Khan --- Pakistan
"Everyone can look at the stars; it takes a champion to climb a mountain to get one."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Scott Burley --- Ontario, Canada
"What is utmost necessary in life is to fix yourself to the axis of your own life, which is your true nature. Sinewave of life will definitely show its positive and negative excursions with different magnitudes around this axis. If you manage to remain undeviated from your true nature or principles, no positive or negative peak can move you from there. Remember sinewave is meant to change always and not the axis."
Copyright © 2005 Priyanka Teredesai
Experience all the events, conclude the lesson and go forward but never disturb the focus of your real nature around which your life goes on unwinding. Be always like what your core insists.
"I look up in the sky at the time of the daytime and I saw stars.... the brightest star that I've seen is ME!
D-determination
R-realization
E-excitement
A-action
M-mission
S-success"
Written in 2005 by Zeus Villafuerte --- Philippines
"Dream it, think it, visualize it, make it real."
Copyright © 2005 Oliver dela Cuesta
"Failure is the messenger of success."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Benedict Jaiwanth --- India
"It is not only "the slow but steady wins the race", but the slow, steady, and staying on course wins the race."
Copyright © 2005 Colleen Spiegel
"Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of."
Copyright © 2004 Christy Borgeld - Founder of Stepfamily Day
"No matter how hard things may seem, the diamond of your soul is harder."
Copyright © 2005 Major Bostrom
"The journey is not hard. It only seems hard because the human mind fears the river and avoids the mountain."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Michelle P. --- Ohio