Quotes

These are some of my favorite inspirational & motivational quotes! Enjoy!

“May my hopes for the future be evident in my actions today” ~Seth M. Quealy

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.” ~Muhammad Ali

“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them.” ~Ryan Ferreras

“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” ~Derek Jeter

“It’s not so much about how things turn out, but how we conduct ourselves through our trials” ~Seth M. Quealy

“You can’t hope your way to the top, you have to earn it!”

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

“I am continually reminded of the simple truth that “when a man stands at the edge of a precipice or abyss he thinks one of two things; I can’t or how can I.” When we think “I can’t” the mind turns off and all creativity and hope are gone. But when we think “how can I” the mind starts firing, creativity sparks and the impossible becomes possible!”  ~Seth M. Quealy

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~Babe Ruth

“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” ~Jacob Riis

“If there is no dull and determined effort there will be no brilliant achievement” ~Hsun-Tzu

“The day you stop learning and wanting/trying to be better is the day mediocrity becomes your goal!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“If you want to be better, then give a better effort, have a better plan and choose a better attitude!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” ~Michael Jordan

“Start taking steps in the direction of where you want to end up. Its not a complicated process!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.”  ~Bobby Jones

“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”  ~Arnold Palmer

“Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.” ~Special Olympics Motto

“Believe in what you do & do what you believe in!” ~Someone wise

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” ~Ben Hogan

‎”Having the mental edge is about being able to think just enough to be mindful but not so much that your mind’s full!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~John Wooden

“Choice not Chance! Make a choice, the choice to be great, to be extraordinary, to be your best self in sport & life! Don’t leave it to chance!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.” ~Heber J. Grant

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
~Norman Vincent Peale

“It’s not so much what you tell others about yourself but what you tell yourself about yourself!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle

“What you Will & Won’t do is simply a matter of WILL!” ~Seth M. Quealy

“It’s what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.” ~Pat Riley

“Sometimes you don’t start finding out how good you really are or could be until you realize how good you really aren’t! ~Seth M. Quealy

“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” ~Lou Holtz

“Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe.”   ~Jack Nicklaus

“When you give up you give up the chance to find out how great you could have been.”  ~Seth M. Quealy

“Adversity is the fertilizer of growth” ~Ken Ravizza

“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” ~Paul Brandt

“Courage is fear turned inside out. It is impossible to be courageous if at first you weren’t afraid.” ~Bob Rotella

“Know that in your pursuit of excellence, working on the mental game will get you there faster and keep you there longer.”   ~Seth M. Quealy

“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 potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~Muhammad Ali

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” ~Jerry Rice

“If you want to be great then do & be better today than you were yesterday and plan to do & be better tomorrow than you are today.” ~Seth M. Quealy

Ubuntu is a South African word, its loose English translation is unity, but that barely scratches the surface of the meaning of the word. Ubuntu means sacrificing personal gains for the good of the whole. “I am because we are!” We have sayings that reflect the same thing in the USA, “United we stand, divided we fall”; According to South African freedom leader Nelson Mandela, Ubuntu is not a single thing but a broad concept involving characteristics such as unselfishness and caring that “enable the community around you.” Unbuntu is the theme for the Boston Celtics

“There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.”
~ Johnny Unitas

“I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, you have to. If you don’t who will?”
~ Johnny Unitas

“We are only limited by our imagination and our belief that what we have imagined is possible.” ~ Seth M. Quealy

“When your heart’s in it you’ve got a chance to win it.”
~ Seth M. Quealy

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. ”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“If you’re in a slump re-define why you love to do what you do, the excitement & desire to succeed will return so will your power to play ”
~ Seth M. Quealy

“Believe you can and you’re half way there.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
~ William James

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. ”
~ Mary Kay Ash

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

“When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
~ John F. Kennedy

“One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
‘Tis the set of sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go. ”
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes. ”
~ Charles Swindoll

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
~ Buddha

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.”
~ Unknown

“We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
~ Art Linkletter

“Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief is what gets you there.”
~ Apollo

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
~ Harry Truman

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
~ Brian Tracy

“We tend to live up to our expectations.”
~ Earl Nightingale

“Do what you can where you are with what you have.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that there is an answer. ”
~ Leo Buscaglia

“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.”
~ Orison Swett Marden

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you will do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
~ Lou Holtz

“It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best and expect only the best.
To be enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, to strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.”
~ Christian D. Larson

“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Some people walk in the rain… others just get wet… ”
~ Roger Miller

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ”
~ Tom Blandi

“I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
~ Martha Washington

“We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.”
~ Jonathan Kabat-Zinn

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
~ Hugh Downs

“They can… because they think they can.”
~ Virgil

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
~ Jonathan Winters

“A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can’t.”
~ Jack Dempsey

“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become, the hours of practice, the coaches who push you, and the fans who cheer for you, is the little girl who fell in love with the sport and never looked back. Play for her.”
~ Unknown

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“If you only play a defensive game, it is impossible to win.”
~ Unknown

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
~ John Wooden

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”
~ Jerry Barber

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
~ Muhammad Ali

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”
~ Emmitt Smith

“Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”
~ Joe Paterno

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
~ Yogi Berra

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
~ Wayne Gretzky

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”
~ Mark Twain

“Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.”
~ W. Clement Stone

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
~ Lao Tzu

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
~ Henry Ford

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy”
~ Dale Carnegie

“It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled 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 and comes short again and again;
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 timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

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.”
~ Nora Roberts

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
~ Lloyd Jones

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as…to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.”
~ Og Mandino

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
~ Will Rogers

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
~ Lewis Cass

“Every great achievement was once considered impossible.”
~ Unknown

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
~ Lou Holtz

“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone
forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.”
~ Unknown

“The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.”
~ Malcolm F. MacNeil

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