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I saw a couple of quotations about moviation on another thread and though it might be interesting to get a list going. Here's one of my favorites that sometimes comes to me when I'm trying to shave a second or two off a 2k piece...<br /><br />"Talk is cheap and baby time's expensive,<br /> so why waste another minute more<br />Life's too short to be so apprehensive..."<br /><br />-- Mary Chapin Carpenter (Shut Up and Kiss Me from Stones in the Road)<br /><br />Best, Ernie

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Why cant i feel my legs?<br />Or if a mirror is present, why has my face turned blue?

I saw this one in a profile for a rower (sorry, don't remember which one)... sounds<br />like his coach talking:<br /><br />"Row until you see God! Then sprint!"<br /><br />Steve<br />

I've always been a fan of Steve Prefontaine's quote:<br />"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."<br /><br />Here's another one, it's a long quote, but it motivates me:<br />"Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

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Some quotes from <i>Daniel's Running Formula</i> by Jack Daniels:<br /><br />"<i>We all get more practice losing than winning, so it is as important to learn to be good loser as it is to be graceful winner.</i>"<br /><br />"<i>Run with your head the first two third of the race and with your heart the final third</i>"<br /><br />"<i>The feeling I get at the starting line is that it's over -- all the hard work and training are over. The race is the fun part.</i>" Julie Moss, Professionnal Triathlete<br /><br />"<i>The more you expect from a situation, the more you will achieve.</i>" Kenneth Baum,<i> The Mental Edge</i><br />

Some more profound quotes from the Urantia Book:<br /><br /><i>Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.</i><br /><br /><i>Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come.</i><br /><br />"<i>The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity</i>"<br /><br />"<i>Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love</i>"<br /><br />"<i>Progress demands development of individuality; mediocrity seeks perpetuation in standardization.</i>"<br /><br />"<i>The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained.</i>"<br />

Care should be taken with remarks, that they not be greatly offensive to any particular individuals or sectors of community.<br /><br />There is no humor in being offensive, in particular to those less fortunate.<br /><br />I think it better to reconsider and then remove such offensive writings.<br /><br />Hopefully it is obvious to which of the messages this is referring.<br /><br />Cheers.

Good point John!<br /><br />Cheers!

i would rather them be harsh comments, makes me mad, i like it

I also like this one from the Urantia Book:<br /><br />"Live loyally today -- grow -- and tomorrow will attend for itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.

The impossible is often untried. Unknown Author<br /><br />The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister<br /><br />You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them. Michael Jordan<br /><br />The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. Vic Braden<br /><br />The January Virtual Team Challenge opened my eyes to possibility. At the beginning I did not think that I would hit 200,000 for the month; I finished at 324,000. Now I have set a goal for this season of hitting 2MM - possibility becomes probability?<br /><br />Marie<br />

Hi Marie,<br /><br />You are quite inspiring with your rowing.<br /><br />Thank you for your quotations and your messages.

There is a passage that I find particularly touching. It may not make you into a faster rower but may foster more harmony amongst us <br /><br />"In the mind's eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times -- a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, leg spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginning of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them."