Motivating Quotes

There are times when we all need a bit of motivation, a small lift to get us up and going through the day. I have many quotes that I refer to - here are my top 10 motivating quotes (not in any particular order) . . .

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. IMPOSSIBLE is nothing. How are you going to live your life? U.S. Army

It's not about what you've got; it's about what you DO with what you've got. Andie West.

To give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine.

Nothing in the world is permanent and we are foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we are still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. William Somerset Maughan.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde.

It's never too late to become what you could have been. GoFigure.

I believe that if you have a dream in your heart, you shouldn't let go. Ava Cowan.

Anything is possible. You can be told you have a 90 percent chance, or a 50 percent chance, or a 1 percent chance. But you have to believe and you have to fight. Lance Armstrong.

It ain't about how hard you get hit. It's about how hard you get hit and keep moving forward . . . That's what winners do. Rocky Balboa.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt.

Nothing is as dark as it seems. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, a silver lining in the most ominous of stormclouds. We just have to keep our eyes on that, find it, look for it, and hold it in our heads and hearts, until we are where we want and need to be.